Dependency problem when "post" runs command from the rpm
Toralf Lund <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:15:41 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I've run into an installation order issue related to the "post" scriptlet in one of my packages. Basically, this scripts executes a (command-line only) program installed by the package, and this program pretty much needs everything required by the package. The problem is, if I install my package along with some of the required software, the requirements are often installed *after* the "main" package - which means the "post" script won't work because some of what the program needs isn't installed yet. So, this is when I use "Requires(post)", isn't it? But how do I set it up? The Requires of the package is a very long list, and most of the entries are added via the "AutoReqProv" mechanism, so duplicating the info by hand for "Requires(post)" is rather hard. Is there an alternative? Can I somehow say that everything in the main Requires list is also required by "post"? Or alternatively, can I enable automatic search for shared objects etc. for Requires(post) just like for Requires? - Toralf