Re: Dependency problem when "post" runs command from the rpm

Toralf Lund wrote:
> Toralf Lund wrote:
>> Valery Reznic wrote:
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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. [ ... ]
>>>> \
>>>>     
>>> To keep Requires and Requires(post) in sync you can use rpmrebuild
>>> (http://rpmrebuild.sf.net)
>>> First you build your package as usual.
>>> Then you use rpmrebuild to rebuild package. You'll need to write 
>>> plugin for --change-spec-requires.
>>> It's can be something like
>>>   
>> Right. I never thought of that.
>>
>> This does seems like a rather roundabout way of going about it, 
>> though, and I was really hoping for some sort of support within 
>> rpmbuild itself.
> But actually, I can't seem to reproduce the original problem now, i.e. 
> when I retry the installation, the packages are installed in the 
> "correct" order without Requires(pre). And many this is what I should 
> expect; rpm does try to order packages according to (normal) Requires 
> these days, doesn't it.
>
> Yet I'm quite sure that it somehow decided to install the package 
> using certain libs after the ones providing them when I tested this 
> earlier.
>
> I'm confused ;-(
... confused enough to get the above bit the wrong way around. What I 
meant to say, was that a package requiring some libs was somewhat 
unexpectedly installed first of all even though rpms providing the libs 
were specified on the same command line.

- Toralf