Re: sequence of removal within a transaction

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org>]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Frank Cusack wrote:

> On July 28, 2006 1:16:55 PM +0530 "Chowdhury, Chandan Dutta (STSD)" 
> <chandan-dutta chowdhury hp com> wrote:
> > Should rpm take care of the sequence of packages within the transaction
>
> Yes, but it doesn't do so until very recently.  (4.4.7?)
>
> > ?
> > Or
> > Should this be done out of rpm and the properly sequenced package list
> > should be provided to rpm. In that case tools like yum and apt should
> > take care of this.
>
> yum and apt should take care of this regardless of rpm's handling.

Yum does whatever rpms ts.order() does (as noticed, removal with yum has 
the same problem as older rpm versions), apt-rpm can optionally 
use it's own ordering algorithm which ensures proper erasure ordering.

	- Panu -