Tricks for laying down good foundations ;-)

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, David Timms wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 07:54 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>>> Currently, there appears to be no defined order for install process; in 
>>> fact of a default-ish install of 1000 packages, kernel might be around 850 
>>> to 900 into the process, openoffice around 500.
>> 
>> The order is determined by rpm itself, after sorting out all the install
>> loops, the %pre/%post requirements, etc...
> Let's say that yum asked to install certain packages, or groups that met the 
> above criterion, as 4x separate transactions. Then rpm would have to obey 
> wouldn't it ?
>

Sure, but what does that have to do with anything?

-sv