Re: installing order != dependencies ?

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Re: installing order != dependencies ?, James Olin Oden said...:

> On 11/2/06, Andrei Kazarov <Andrei Kazarov cern ch> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with installing 2 dependent packages with "rpm -i": it
> > seems that the packages are installed on order that I give in the
> > command line, and not in the order of dependency. E.g. if PackageA
> > requires PackageB and I do
> >
> >  > rpm -i PackageA.rpm PackageB.rpm
> >
> > then PackageA is installed before PackageB. I need B to be installed
> > first, because in PackageA %post stage I need to access some files in
> > PackageB.
> >
> > How can I guarantee the correct order not relying on the order of
> > packages in rpm -i?
> Can you send a link to said packages srpms?
>
> Beyond that do you have:
>
>   Requires: PackageA
>
> in the preamble of PackageB?

Remember that "Requires" isn't the same as "PreReq".  Jeff can give
a better explanation, but if PackageA must be installed *before* PackageB,
rather than at the same time as PackageB, then try using "PreReq"
instead of "Requires".

Jeff also added more fine-grained controls in RPM 4.0.1, for doing
stuff like this:

	Requires(pre): /path/to/command/from/packageA

in PackageB's spec, to indicate that its %pre requires a particular
command already be there.

Tim
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