[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Fix upgrade path

[Aaron Conole]

Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> writes:

> There is a bug in the upgrade path from the old kmod-openvswitch SysV
> based RPM to the new openvswitch-kmod systemd based RPM. Since the
> name of the package is changed it is not possible to use the yum
> or rpm upgrade options.  This prevents passing in a 1 or 2 to the
> %postun scriptlet section of the older RPM and that causes the section
> to be treated as an 'erase'.  The old kmod-openvswitch %postun section
> proceeds to erase the symlinks in ../weak-updates/openvwswitch that
> the installation of the new package had just created.
>
> Fix this by adding a %posttrans tag to the systemd spec file.  This
> scriptlet is called after the symlinks have just been erased and
> it calls the ovs-kmod-manage.sh script to recreate the symlinks and
> run depmod -a again so that the correct kernel modules will be
> found and loaded.
>
> VMware-BZ: #236987
>
> Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> ---

LGTM.  I didn't test this, though.

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>