On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:11, Tuomo Soini wrote: > You are absolutely right. Command line rpm has same problem. It won't > reorder packages, it installs packages in order given, You have made this assertion several times. It is wrong[*]. rpm reorders subtransactions *where* *needed* within a transaction. However, a package requiring another package does not imply ordering - it merely states that at the end of the transaction both packages must be installed. Ordering is only required where a package is needed to enable the installation of another package - this is the PreReq relationship. However this discussion should all be on the rpm-list. Nigel. [*] As an example, here is a transcript of a command line rpm install (vsgctrl prereqs x86info & 3:vsgctrl-vsg-templates):- [root@vbakgwt003 x]# rpm -Uvh vsgctrl-2.14-1.noarch.rpm x86info-1.11-1.i386.rpm \ vsgctrl-vsg-templates-2.14-1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:x86info ########################################### [ 33%] 2:vsgctrl ########################################### [ 66%] 3:vsgctrl-vsg-templates ########################################### [100%] -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
