Hacking modversions

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Mar 1 19:29:13 UTC 2005



>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. 
>

the most wonderful thing about tiggers. Is tiggers are wonderful things.
However, triggers are not. They should be handled with excruciating
care, like epochs. Now, in this situation you're describing you want an
rpm to spawn off some other process to go fetch new kernel module rpms?

How would you standardize and mandate that? Remember, %scriptlets cannot
be user-interactive.

-sv

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