Re: Yum dependency installation order?

Michael Lasevich <[email protected]> writes:

> Ok, I am running into some strange issue and was wondering(suspecting)
> if it was by design and if so, is there any way around it.
>
> Basically I have packages that require other packages for the pre/post
> scripts - but it looks like dependency resolver does not guarantee the
> order the packages get installed in - which means that even if the
> package I need is being installed, sometimes the post script fails
> because it is being installed after.

 It is rpm that does the transaction ordering, and it should work fine
(using Requires(pre)/Requires(post) etc.) as long as there are no loops.

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James Antill -- [email protected]