Re: Adding a prereq to an rpm?

[James Ralston <qralston+ml rpm andrew cmu edu>]

I'd suggest that you complain to whoever created the binary
ApacheJServ RPM that the spec file needs to have "Prereq: apache"
instead of "Requires: apache" if the postinstall is going to assume
that apache is already installed.

Of course, if you have the ApacheJServ source RPM, then you could
trivially fix it yourself...

James

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Bill Woodward wrote:
> The problem is that although ApacheJServ requires apache, it is not
> a prereq, so it's possible that ApacheJServ will be installed before
> apache is installed.  This screws up the ApacheJServ postinstall
> script, which updates the apache httpd.conf.