>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:21:33 +0800 (WST) >From: John <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: RPM Installation Ordering > >On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 joseph.r.bezouska@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> Howdy -- >> >> Anaconda newbie, here -- been studying the docs/source >> (pkgorder, rpmmodule.c, depends.c, etc) to follow the >> process of establishing bootstrap install RPM ordering. >> Having trouble, though, reconciling an observation to >> the code. >> >> Installing "minimal" 8.0 (largely only Core, Base, Dial-up comps) >> yields this RPM install order on my system (from /root/install.log >> as well as rpm -qa --last): >> >> 1. glibc-common >> 2. hwdata >> 3. redhat-menus >> 4. setup >> 5. filesystem >> 6. basesystem >> ..... (so on) ...... >> >> Some docs speak of how basesystem should be the first >> installed, and its dependence (noted in comps file) on >> filesystem and in turn setup seems to make the order of >> 4, 5, and 6 make sense. >> >> However, looking over comps and basesystem, I'm missing >> why 1, 2, and 3 in particular would install first. > > >AFAIK you don't need to concern yourself with install order. Unless, >maybe, you want to cut a custom CD with only those packages you need. > >I personally like to install from a web server, and use the webserver >logs to discern the order packages are installed. Thanks -- long term, a custom CD is likely the goal. Short term, it's curiousity about what is "sepcial" about these 3. I mean, clearly they are pretty bascially necessary, but what/where specifically mandates these before basesystem -- the purported "first" RPM to be installed? Why these and not, just for sake of example, say bdflush? Curiousity, really -- perhaps the question itself is way off track. This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.
