On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:59 -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:24:10AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > > #1 need not be limited to anaconda. It could also be a super special > > case that apt, yum and up2date handle because it is extremely rare but > > important. > > There's lots of other special case stuff handled by anaconda. (Installing > the gnome-session RPM when upgrading from GNOME 1.x to 2.x is the one > that comes to mind most easily.) Maybe there should be some kind of > pre-upgrade/post-upgrade scripts which the admin can run manually > before/after running apt, yum or up2date. That would be *MUCH* cleaner > than putting it straight into apt/yum/up2date. The fact that anaconda has it doesn't make it a good idea :-) I'd like to have a more general way of handling these sorts of things that can be shared a little bit better, but the big problem with that is the maintenance of it and keeping it current for as the distribution changes. Jeremy
