Bug 11756

Summary:	Stop iwlwifi-agn-ucode orphanization
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Filipe Saraiva <mail>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, tmb
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Filipe Saraiva 2013-11-25 17:31:14 CET

Hi. I have this problem since the begin of Mageia development. My wireless card need iwlwifi-agn-ucode to work, but this module is always orphaned when I do a kernel update. If I remove the orphans, I need to connect my computer in cable internet to intall iwlwifi-agn-ucode again.

Is it possible stop the iwlwifi-agn-ucode orphanization?

(I did put iwlwifi-agn-ucode for not orphaned again, my question is to Mageia current default behaviour change for not orphaned iwlwifi-agn-ucode)

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2013-11-25 21:28:12 CET

Running "urpmi iwlwifi-agn-ucode", after it's already installed,
will mark it as a manually installed package, that will not be
auto-orphaned, in the future.

I'm not sure what should be done to ensure other's don't
run into the same problem. Anyone using urpme --auto-orphans,
is expected to know, how to prevent an orphaned package
from being removed, but this bug report makes it clear, that
is not the case.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2013-11-25 22:23:16 CET

Hm,

Thierry... 

I added this a couple of weeks ago:
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=26b5fcd0b10715f1d0d085a1f9db5907a10185f2

Do I need to update some other code too?

CC: (none) => tmb
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Filipe Saraiva 2013-11-26 04:03:40 CET

(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #1)
> Running "urpmi iwlwifi-agn-ucode", after it's already installed,
> will mark it as a manually installed package, that will not be
> auto-orphaned, in the future.

Sure, it is correct. But if I update the kernel, I will need run "urpmi iwlwifi-agn-ucode" again. My question is, is it possible prevent the iwlwifi-agn-ucode orphanization for the kernel update case?
 
> I'm not sure what should be done to ensure other's don't
> run into the same problem. Anyone using urpme --auto-orphans,
> is expected to know, how to prevent an orphaned package
> from being removed, but this bug report makes it clear, that
> is not the case.

For my case, I configured iwlwifi-agn-ucode for don't be orphaned again. My worry is just for users with little technical expertise in this area.

Thanks;

Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-17 00:47:01 CEST

Is this problem still present Filipe? 

Thierry, there was a question from tmb in comment #2.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 5 Thomas Backlund 2015-05-17 00:59:24 CEST

The commit referenced in comment 2 fixed the issoe

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED