On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Am 23.07.2011 16:48, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:

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On 23 July 2011 13:41, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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anything else I missed, shout out now :)

The creation of the initramfs image symlinks needs to be moved back to the .install scriptlet because pacman doesn't track the old images and will refuse to replace them. Are you sure, it should delete them on deinstalling kernel26, at least there is a post_remove function. It doesn't work is what he is telling you, nor should it- file conflict checks take place long before this, and a package will never ever ever try to overwrite things it sees on the filesystem that are unowned. The kernel symlink should stay in the package but the initramfs ones cannot.

But I don't know exactly how pacman will handle the replace.

On 23 July 2011 18:26, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

On 23 July 2011 17:48, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

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On 23 July 2011 13:41, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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anything else I missed, shout out now :)

The creation of the initramfs image symlinks needs to be moved back to the .install scriptlet because pacman doesn't track the old images and will refuse to replace them.

I wrote a patch [1] that does the above, and also adds provides/conflicts for the replaced packages.

(Ten or so packages depend on kernel26-headers and a couple on kernel26.)

[1] http://pkgbuild.com/~foutrelis/add-provides-conflicts-and-fix-initramfs-syml...

Corrected the patch to include ${_kernelname} in the kernel image symlink (for unofficial kernel packages): ln -sf vmlinuz-${pkgname} ${pkgdir}/boot/vmlinuz26${_kernelname} <-- this last bit was missing Should be OK now. :)