From rpm-list-admin@freshrpms.net Mon Oct 7 18:41:12 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8350016F16 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:41:09 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 07 Oct 2002 18:41:09 +0100 (IST) Received: from egwn.net (auth02.nl.egwn.net [193.172.5.4]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g97HRrK09669 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:27:53 +0100 Received: from auth02.nl.egwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g97HL3f32052; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:21:03 +0200 Received: from posti.pp.htv.fi (posti.pp.htv.fi [212.90.64.50]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g97HKVf31932 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:20:31 +0200 Received: from cs78128237.pp.htv.fi ([62.78.128.237]) by posti.pp.htv.fi (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g97HKFg02618 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:20:20 +0300 (EETDST) Subject: Re: RH 8 no DMA for DVD drive From: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Skytt=E4?= To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net In-Reply-To: <20021007183629.40ab9860.matthias@rpmforge.net> References: <1033953429.13890.4.camel@AMD1800> <1033954359.28832.4.camel@athlon.ckloiber.com> <1033964717.1263.8.camel@AMD1800> <20021007085643.5b9bb88c.matthias@rpmforge.net> <1034007312.2296.8.camel@bobcat.ods.org> <20021007183629.40ab9860.matthias@rpmforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Message-Id: <1034011232.8419.65.camel@bobcat.ods.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailscanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by egwn.net id g97HKVf31932 Sender: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net Errors-To: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net X-Beenthere: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Freshrpms RPM discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: 07 Oct 2002 20:20:26 +0300 Date: 07 Oct 2002 20:20:26 +0300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-12.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_SPARSE,T_NONSENSE_FROM_20_30, T_QUOTE_TWICE_1 version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 19:36, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Eek. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that's a good idea. > > Outputting a message in %post and providing a README of some kind would > > be better, as well as perhaps adding a note in %description. > > Why "Eek"? :-) > If no /dev/dvd exists, it'll create it. > If /dev/dvd exists, it won't touch it. I assume that you won't %ghost or remove these and the modules.conf change on uninstall, though. So people who are installing this RPM and are unfortunate enough to have a DVD drive (or just an ordinary CD, non-DVD drive) that doesn't support DMA will be left with a system without a working CD drive, even after removing the RPM. And without ever knowing what struck them. You can't remove the DMA setting from modules.conf either unless you're sure that ogle added it there and nothing else needs it. The /dev stuff isn't that dangerous, but the modules.conf change can be. That's why "Eek" :) > If someone installs ogle (a DVD player), I'm assuming the hardware is > recent enough for software playback and that the drive is a DVD-ROM... all > of them support DMA! But since that change requires a reboot or a manual > change, I'm still hesitating to integrate it :-/ A worthy goal... > My goal is to allow users to install a DVD player through synaptic and play > DVDs in no time. Outputting a message in the %post section of a package is > always a bad idea, putting the tip in the %description sounds good though. How about splitting the creation of the symlinks and modules.conf modifications into a separate RPM? -- \/ille Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list