Jos Vos wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:31:45PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote:Sure it does. If I 'rpm -i foo.rpm bar.rpm baz.rpm', they are installed in the correct order based on dependencies. Or did I just imagine that?Yes, but that was not what then question was about, AFAIK (or I have misinterpreted it). It was not about packages on the command line, but about finding other packages that could be removed when a certain package was removed.
Actually, the question was exactly that. I observed that if you say: # rpm -e foo bar baz it may choose to erase foo prior to bar, even though bar depends on foo. This means I cannot rely on the existence of features witn %postun scriptlets, for example. -- cg