query post/postun/preun dependencies for a rpm

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Dec 18 15:33:26 UTC 2008


On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, devzero2000 wrote:

> The Requires(post) context marker exists only for breaking loop deps at
> the install package time.So it is not necessary to register them in an
> rpmdb because they were needed only
> for installing, not for using or erasing, a package. The %post scriptlet
> is run only during install, never run after install.

They're filtered out from the require *index*, not the headers stored in 
rpmdb. Very different thing.

 	- Panu -




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