FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

[Kim Lux]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 13:47 -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> Kim Lux wrote:
> 
> >I agree that using up2date works fine, except:
> >
> >a) are there issues that won't be fixed by up2date ?
> >  
> >
> Sure. Let's say that FCx liked lilo and FCy likes grub as the default 
> bootstrapper. Would you expect an rpm scriptlet to know anything about 
> a) asking you if you want to switch bootloaders, b) Have a sed/perl 
> script to run that would parse an existing /etc/lilo.conf and build a 
> reasonable /etc/grub.conf? No, you'd expect something more 
> "comprehensive" in scope to know how to do those things.

That is a very good example.  rpms don't handle that.  Anaconda does ask
a few questions about bootloaders.  I've never moved from lilo to grub,
so I don't know what it actually does.


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Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc