Re: Doesn't "rpm -e" erase in reverse dependency order?

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:02:55PM -0800, Christian Goetze wrote:

> # 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.

OK, sorry I misinterpreted it... to answer this, you should define
"depends" in the above sentence in more detail.  For installation
(%post scripts etc.) you have to use "Prereq" (deprecated) or
"Requires(post)" etc. (as you probably know), as just "Requires"
does not affect the order *within* a translation.

For %postun scripts you have to use "Requires(postun)".  However,
I remember a discussion about this on the fedeora-devel (IIRC) list
saying that this is not working correctly at the moment.

Probably Jeff can comment in more details about this.

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