upstart testers wanted!

[Andrew Farris]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> 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

event-compat-sysv is supposed to obsolete sysvinit, you've got it installed and 
latest version but you still have sysvinit installed?  You should have 
sysvinit-tools installed but not sysvinit.

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