On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > On 17 Apr 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > >>>>> "PM" == Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > PM> The pkgorder only affects which package gets on which CD which has > > PM> nothing to do with the actual installation order! > > > > That does not coincide with my experiences. I find that having an > > accurate pkgorder file when building the hdlist makes a very large > > amount of difference. > > I totally agree with that > I modified the pkgorder file before generation the hdlist and i had my > zlib package installed before the font package. Hmm, interesting. A quick look at the source: Anaconda checks whether the hdlist is preordered, logs a warning if one of the packages doesn't have an order tag and then runs transactionset.order() on the set, which in turn as far as I can tell asks rpmlib to sort the packages by dependenices. So.. my understanding is that the pkgorder shouldn't be necessary if the dependencies are correct (which I guess would explain why I haven't seen problems with not running pkgorder) but I'm wondering why does it make a difference then in some cases... Anybody from RH care to comment? - Panu -
