On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:39 -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: > I've found that sometimes when I have dependancies, rpm doesn't dtrt > with a long list of packages. > > So if I have a package that depends on a perl module being installed, > rpm by itself will happily disable dependancy checking and then > install everything at once, perhaps in alphabetical order. > > Will yum do the right thing, and ensure that packages are installed > and configured in a sane order? > > I understand that there can be issues here, such as dependancy loops, > that packagers need to be made aware of the dependancies in their > packages and work around it there, etc. to be in the ideal situation, > but where there aren't these complexities, is this situation taken > care of in yum through some mechanism? > > Even if that mechanism is some kind of manual hint in the creation of > the repository it would help my ability to deploy yum. > Yum uses rpmlib's transaction ordering. so if rpm got it right then yum should get it right, too. -sv
