Graphical boot

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Wed Jul 30 15:26:20 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 11:11, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:30:43AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > OTOH anaconda *does* fiddle around with package selections to some extent on
> > upgrades: there's code for removing blacklisted stuff (linuxconf, no wonder :),
> > installing rhn-applet if up2date-gnome was installed, making sure certain GNOME
> > packages are installed etc. Whether rhgb should be automatically added on
> > upgrade .. well, I dunno.
> 
> Basically, the default answer is "don't fiddle".  It's only done in
> cases where there's a very strong reason.  An "update" has never had
> the requirement of producing the same effect as an "install" in Red
> Hat Linux -- besides the fact that it is practically impossible to
> achieve in practice, it's not necessarily what people want.  We aim
> for "functional with packages updated" and not automagically pulling
> in rhgb on upgrade is inline with that policy.

I'm not sure I'd agree with this - OK, I'd agree that hard-coding
fiddling in anaconda is evil - but I think making sure that rhgb
gets installed for an upgrade of a workstation install of RH 9
is very much in line with what we've tried to do in the past.

Sometimes this involves hard-coding things in anaconda, in other
cases we've added extra package dependencies just to make sure
that things get pulled in.

But the goal is certainly that if you take a workstation install,
upgrade it to a newer version, you get the main workstation
features of the newer version.

Regards,
					Owen






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