Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:25 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> Roland McGrath wrote: >>> Is there a reason to add a hack to the kernel %post in particular, >>> instead of just making people use rpm triggers? I mean, horror and all that. >>> But at least it's generic SEP horror, and not new hair for the kernel rpm >>> itself (i.e. our problem). >> On the surface, I don't see why the couldn't. I suppose we should prod >> Matt Domsch on why he's against using triggers for dkms, since his >> objection in the bug doesn't list any details... > > Triggers run at not exactly the time you expect them to. Which makes > them a little bit less helpful. Really, you want to plug-in after > depmod, etc are run but before the initrd is made. And you can't do > that from a trigger. Ew, yeah, okay, I could see that having odd side-effects in a few cases... So what you're saying is we should do this in new-kernel-pkg? ;) At least that would make it mostly mkinitrd's problem and not the kernel's... > Also, triggers manage to cause all sorts of crazy fun weird corner > cases. Fear them. :-) /me cringes in terror... :) -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx
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