Hacking modversions

Eric Warnke eric at snowmoon.com
Tue Mar 1 19:21:24 UTC 2005


Mike Hearn wrote:

>This solves the following problem:
>
>Bill sets up a Linux system for Sally. She does a "yum upgrade" because
>she knows it's important to stay up to date to be secure. The kernel is
>changed, and as a result various things break even though the update was
>fixing a race condition in a syscall implementation. She does not
>know how to fix it. 
>
>  
>

Why not use tiggers in binary kernel mod rpm's to at least attempt to
get a more an up-to-date version?  That way whenever the kernel changes
the dependant rpm's would attempt to install the latest version of the
modules. 

Though I admit that maybe it's time for a more intuitive boot process so
that users faced with a horribly messed up system from a kernel upgrade
could "Boot from last known good kernel".

Cheers,
Eric
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