Re: [SSI-devel] package management - yum?

[En C. L. <en...@in...>]

>>>> - remove the call to new-kernel-pkg from the post-install of 
>>>> kernel-ssi-smp. Instead, include a ssi-install script, and echo a 
>>>> message instructing the user to run this script before rebooting to 
>>>> complete the installation. This script would call ssi-create, and 
>>>> then new-kernel-pkg, and ask the reboot question.
>>>>   In case the user forgets to run the script, a reboot would just 
>>>> boot back into the base kernel which should work even with the 
>>>> openssi enhanced packages.
>>
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>> I'm going to try this first coz I didn't like having ssi-create run as 
>> part of a reboot. I'll have to check if the machine will boot back 
>> without problem into an old kernel after the install of the packages 
>> first, and if that works, the yum install should be very simple.
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> This option sounds good. If our modified user-mode utilities have 
> problems, hopefully they're not too difficult to fix.

The patches attached ensure that the rpm install of the openssi packages 
does not prevent the base Fedora install from booting.
Which branch should I be checking this into?

> BTW, it might be better to call the script ssi-configure. Running 
> something called ssi-install seems a little weird after just installing 
> a bunch of OpenSSI packages.

After I installed the openssi packages, I called ssi-create and 
new-kernel-pkg, and rebooted. The node booted cleanly into the openssi 
kernel.
These two calls should be sufficient for the ssi-configure script.

One more thing that will have to be fixed is the dependencies. The 
easiest (and maybe ugliest) solution would be to make the kernel-ssi-smp 
rpm depend on all the openssi packages. Would this be okay?

Thanks,

En Chiang

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Brian
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