After upgrading an FC2 machine (that does not use RAID) to FC3, I noticed that the obsolete raidtools package stayed (and dmraid was not installed). Is this normal? Or should dmraid be marked as obsoleting raidtools?
Obsolete raidtools and dmraid are mostly unrelated. dmraid activates ATARAID devices on FC3 whereas raidtools were dealing with MDs (use mdadm now).
Does this mean that mdadm should obsolete raidtools?
mdadm is the newer tool implementation by the RAID maintainer Neil Brown. There hasn't been any development in raidtools for a while. Yes, mdadm obsoletes raidtools in FC3.
> Yes, mdadm obsoletes raidtools in FC3. Well, then I guess it's a bug, because it does not. % rpm -q mdadm mdadm-1.6.0-2 % rpm -q --obsoletes mdadm mdctl
I would prefer not to obsolete raidtools just yet. There are dependancies in initscripts related to raidtools and starting devices. These *should* be solved already, but I don't want to risk breaking things in FC3. Instead, I'll rebuild the package for FC4 with the obsoletes in place so that if there are any problems with upgrades, etc. then they can be sorted out during the alpha/beta timeframe.
An obsoletes for raidtools has been added as of 1.9.0-4.fc4