[Yum] bug in yum 2.0.5

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:11, Tuomo Soini wrote:
> You are absolutely right. Command line rpm has same problem. It won't 
> reorder packages, it installs packages in order given,

You have made this assertion several times.  It is wrong[*].

rpm reorders subtransactions *where* *needed* within a transaction.

However, a package requiring another package does not imply ordering -
it merely states that at the end of the transaction both packages must
be installed.

Ordering is only required where a package is needed to enable the
installation of another package - this is the PreReq relationship.

However this discussion should all be on the rpm-list.

	Nigel.

[*] As an example, here is a transcript of a command line rpm install
(vsgctrl prereqs x86info & 3:vsgctrl-vsg-templates):-

[root at vbakgwt003 x]# rpm -Uvh vsgctrl-2.14-1.noarch.rpm x86info-1.11-1.i386.rpm \
   vsgctrl-vsg-templates-2.14-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:x86info                ########################################### [ 33%]
   2:vsgctrl                ########################################### [ 66%]
   3:vsgctrl-vsg-templates  ########################################### [100%]

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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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