[Yum] Yum to install an RPM first

[James Antill]

renu abraham <ace.renu at gmail.com> writes:

> I have a custom made rpm. I need to install my particular RPM in a list of
> rpms which are part of a program.
> Say I have around 20 patch rpms which needs to be installed I need to
> install this through yum command. My particular RPM namely
> Patch-list.1.1.1.2-1.noarch.rpm needs to be installed as the first rpm in
> the total list of 21 rpms. I can modify my spec files and Makefiles as per
> my wish.
> Can anybody suggest what needs to be changed so that my rpm
> Patch-list.1.1.1.2-1.noarch.rpm will be installed first

 Transaction ordering is done by rpm, the very latest version of rpm
4.9.0 has support to hint on changes to the ordering within
specfiles. However AIUI it doesn't help your case.

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James Antill -- james at and.org