[Yum-devel] Guarantee Install Order
James Antill
james at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 22 21:32:23 UTC 2013
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 14:06 -0600, Kevin Knowles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following dependency structure:
> A depends on B depends on C
>
> The dependencies are being set in each RPM as requires. So, A requires B
> and B requires C.
>
> When doing a yum install A, I would expect the install order to always be
> C, B, A. But we are seeing B being installed before C some times. The
> problem is B has a post install script that calls an executable installed
> by C. What will I need to set in RPM or Yum to guarantee that C is always
> installed before B? I am using RPM v4.8 if that matters.
That's an rpm thing, the best documentation I can find off hand is:
http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Dependencies#ScriptletDependencies
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