On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 23:12 +0000, Harry Moyes wrote:
I'm betting on a bug, but my bitch was not the bug in the new kernel, its the silent hiding of that error by up2date, and the misleading report of success. I removed the new kernel, and re ran up2date, and it still reported success despite the failure >:|
So consider this a vote for a serious review of up2date.
The problem is that the initrd and the boot menu item is created when the kernel package is installed, in the post-install scripts. What happened was surely that the kernel installed fine but the post-install scripts failed. As far as I can tell there's no way to tell that the post-install scripts failed using RPM, so this really isn't up2date's fault, it's a limitation of rpm.
/Per