[Yum] yum handling of requires and prereq

Florian La Roche laroche at redhat.com
Tue Jun 20 13:01:00 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:46:33PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> I have filed a bug into Red Hat bugzilla, see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196002
> 
> We have an argument with Jens (Cced) whether it is a bug in yum or a bug 
> in package in question. To summarize, here is the problem:
> 
> Conditions:
> Package A prerequres package B, and package B requires C.
> 
> Question:
> Does that mean that A prerequies C, or, in other words, should C be 
> installed before A?

C could be installed later on for this example.

regards,

Florian La Roche




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