upstart testers wanted!

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said:
>>> Before we put upstart into the main tree for the feature freeze, we want
>>> to make sure we have all the big bugs worked out. If you're 
>>> interested in
>>> helping out, read on!
>>>
>>> To start, just grab the repo file at
>>>   http://notting.fedorapeople.org/upstart/upstart.repo
>>>
>>> and do an upgrade (or 'yum install upstart event-compat-sysv')
>>
>> You may also need to separately install sysvinit-tools if dependencies
>> do not bring it in.
> 
> FYI for anyone else comes across this.  When installing upstart and 
> event-compat-sysv you may get an error during rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> Package redhat-lsb needs /sbin/pidof, this is not available.
> 
> Installing sysvinit-tools at the same time as upstart fixes this.
> 
on an x86_64 rawhide rawhide update attempt I get:

[root at P5K-E-WiFi ~]# yum install upstart event-compat-sysv

Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package event-compat-sysv-0.3.9-8.fc9.noarch already installed and 
latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package upstart.x86_64 0:0.3.9-9.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository 
Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
  upstart                 x86_64     0.3.9-9.fc9      development 
254 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       1 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total size: 254 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
   file /sbin/halt from install of upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts 
with file from package sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /sbin/init from install of upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts 
with file from package sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /sbin/poweroff from install of upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 
conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /sbin/runlevel from install of upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 
conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /sbin/shutdown from install of upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 
conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/init.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64
   file /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz from install of 
upstart-0.3.9-9.fc9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package 
sysvinit-2.86-22.x86_64

Error Summary
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