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

Justin Pettit jpettit at ovn.org
Tue Jun 25 23:28:43 UTC 2019


> On Jun 25, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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>

Thanks for the patch and review.  I committed it to master, branch-2.11, and branch-2.10.  Let me know if I should backport it further.

--Justin




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