[Yum] bug in yum 2.0.5

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Mar 4 13:35:21 UTC 2004


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> 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[*].

Agreed.

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

Even though he's using PreReq, it's still not working. My understanding is 
that PreReq should be doing what he's wanting (forcing mysql to install 
before postfix when both are part of the same transaction). At any rate, 
it's an rpm bug if it is a bug....

later,
chris



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