Tricks for laying down good foundations ;-)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 15 12:33:15 UTC 2008


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, David Timms wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 07:54 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>>>> Currently, there appears to be no defined order for install process; 
>>>> in fact of a default-ish install of 1000 packages, kernel might be 
>>>> around 850 to 900 into the process, openoffice around 500.
>>>
>>> The order is determined by rpm itself, after sorting out all the install
>>> loops, the %pre/%post requirements, etc...
>> Let's say that yum asked to install certain packages, or groups that 
>> met the above criterion, as 4x separate transactions. Then rpm would 
>> have to obey wouldn't it ?
>>
> 
> Sure, but what does that have to do with anything?

Obviously he is looking at a problem and trying to provide ideas to 
improve the situation. I assume, the fundamental idea of installing the 
base dependencies first if that makes sense should be a enhancement 
request to rpm instead of working around it in either Anaconda or yum.

Rahul







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