So this means there will appear to be a failed update, and when they try again things will work right (meaning we already unpinned kerneloops and fixed the regex in that rbuilder generated conary config file)
That isn't to bad. --Ken On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 10:56 -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > When kerneloops was added, no one noticed that the fact that we > pin kernel troves meant that the kerneloops program was pinned. > Now we're in a bind; we can't upgrade it without getting it unpinned. > > There are two things to think about here: > o How to get it unpinned so that we can upgrade it. > o How to prevent this happening again. > > Unpinning: > > We can't unpin in a group script directly, because the conary > database is locked. Fundamentally, any solution for this will be an > ugly hack; we just want to pick the one that is the least disgusting. > At least conary gives an error message that tells people (correctly) > how to unpin; this mitigates the problem. One thing I don't know: > does PackageKit provide that error message to the user? > > After much consideration, the only workable option I can come up > with is to could create a pre script which queries the database > (querying is OK, we just can't modify it) to see if kerneloops > is pinned, and if it is, it starts a disconnected background > job, then does "exit 1" to top the update. The background > job would sleep/loop until it is able to unpin kerneloops. > See http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:Group_Scripts > > Prevention: > > We should immediately fix the pinTroves entry in /etc/conary/config.d/kernel > to be more selective. kernel:.* is probably good enough. If not, then > we can use kernel(:.*|$) (need to test that, though). This can be > done now, before we have finished testing the workaround that lets > us update kerneloops. > _______________________________________________ > Foresight-devel mailing list > Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org > http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
