[Yum] package ordering instructions?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:47:57PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:39 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > I've found that sometimes when I have dependancies, rpm doesn't dtrt
> > with a long list of packages.
> > 
> > So if I have a package that depends on a perl module being installed,
> > rpm by itself will happily disable dependancy checking and then
> > install everything at once, perhaps in alphabetical order.
> > 
> > Will yum do the right thing, and ensure that packages are installed
> > and configured in a sane order?
> > 
> > I understand that there can be issues here, such as dependancy loops,
> > that packagers need to be made aware of the dependancies in their
> > packages and work around it there, etc. to be in the ideal situation,
> > but where there aren't these complexities, is this situation taken
> > care of in yum through some mechanism? 
> > 
> > Even if that mechanism is some kind of manual hint in the creation of
> > the repository it would help my ability to deploy yum.
> > 
> 
> Yum uses rpmlib's transaction ordering. so if rpm got it right then yum
> should get it right, too.
> 

I guess I have to see how this works out in practice, then see if I
have any default packages that trip over this.

Thanks,

-Peter


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