On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Ken Teh wrote: >Does pre-patch work? Certainly does (with a minor caveat about kernel version and loadable modules in %post scripts). >I seem to remember that somewhere along the way, RedHat required that >updated rpms had to be installed in order. They do; the package ordering moved out of anaconda some time around FC2 or RHEL3. What was a simple "genhdlist" became a "genhdlist;pkgorder;genhdlist" (incomplete, ask Google). >One point I will mention: If there are a lot of update rpms (like if >you're running an old RedHat release), the updating part in %post takes >a pretty long time. There's a slight optimization used when in "install" mode; the RPM transaction is done "unsafely" with regard to the DB4 writes. Your command-line rpm (probably) doesn't do this. Search for "nofsync" in the anaconda sources. Cheers, Phil
