the fate of firewire
Arjan van de Ven
arjanv at redhat.com
Tue Sep 14 06:49:27 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:27, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 13.09.2004, 16:47 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
>
> > > I can't package that right so I rather don't.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, could you give me one or to details on the
> > problem(s)? Thanks.
>
> Installing a new kernel won't automatically get a new
> kernel-firewire package installed. This breaks setups
> where people forget to update the kernel and will
> certainly break any automatic upgrades people may have
> set up.
it's even worse, say you want to install an OLDER kernel for whatever
reason; just "newest external" won't cut it with the way most of these
are packages; you need the exact matching one.
and you need it installed before the kernel gets installed, so that it
makes the initrd.
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