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

[Bryan W. Headley]

Kim Lux wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 13:47 -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
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>>Kim Lux wrote:
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>>>I agree that using up2date works fine, except:
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>>>a) are there issues that won't be fixed by up2date ?
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>>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.
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>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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Me neither; it was merely an example of an upgrade that'd be outside of 
rpm's scope, so you could hardly expect up2date or yum to know what to do