On 20 Feb 2003, Masoud Sharbiani wrote: > Try to generate a graph of rpms you intend to install. Run rpm -qp > <yourpackage> --requires and rpm -qp <yourpackage> --provides to > generate a directed graph. > Now, install can be done from any 'root' node (nodes that don't require > anything.) remember that requirements might not be explicit. for > example, most programs would have a dependency to /lib/libc.so.6 even if > they don't have explicit 'requires: glibc' in their .spec file while > build. > clear enough? :-) I really think the order isn't especially important except for packages with scripts to run. Packages get installed with --nodeps, so meeting dependencies is not required. However, it's a little hard fo add users before the passwd is present. -- Please, reply only to the list.
