Re: Dependency problem when "post" runs command from the rpm

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Toralf Lund wrote:
> Toralf Lund wrote:
> > Valery Reznic wrote:
> > > [ ... ]
> > > > So, this is when I use "Requires(post)",
> > > > isn't it? But how do I set it     up? The Requires of the package 
> > > > is a very long list, and
> > > > most of the entries are added via the "AutoReqProv"
> > > > mechanism, so duplicating the info by hand for "Requires(post)" is 
> > > > rather hard. [ ... ]
> > > > \
> > > >     
> > > To keep Requires and Requires(post) in sync you can use rpmrebuild
> > > (http://rpmrebuild.sf.net)
> > > First you build your package as usual.
> > > Then you use rpmrebuild to rebuild package. You'll need to write 
> > > plugin for --change-spec-requires.
> > > It's can be something like
> > >   
> > Right. I never thought of that.
> >
> > This does seems like a rather roundabout way of going about it, 
> > though, and I was really hoping for some sort of support within 
> > rpmbuild itself.
> But actually, I can't seem to reproduce the original problem now, i.e. 
> when I retry the installation, the packages are installed in the 
> "correct" order without Requires(pre). And many this is what I should 
> expect; rpm does try to order packages according to (normal) Requires 
> these days, doesn't it.
>
> Yet I'm quite sure that it somehow decided to install the package 
> using certain libs after the ones providing them when I tested this 
> earlier.
>
> I'm confused ;-(
... confused enough to get the above bit the wrong way around. What I 
meant to say, was that a package requiring some libs was somewhat 
unexpectedly installed first of all even though rpms providing the libs 
were specified on the same command line.

- Toralf