Modprobing loop on rpm -e

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jun 26 01:10:57 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 20:53 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:31:32PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 13:39 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>  > > I think that we do not need to load the loop module when we uninstall,
>  > > because the current mkinitrd does not use it anymore.
>  > 
>  > Probably not... I hadn't gone in and nuked it mostly as a safety measure
>  > in case we went back... but at this point, it's probably safe to say we
>  > won't ;)
> 
> You still need it in the %pre right? We're just talking about %preun here?

No, don't even need it there anymore -- initramfs doesn't require a
loopback device (one of the big advantages, imho)

Jeremy




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