On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:47:57PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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. > I guess I have to see how this works out in practice, then see if I have any default packages that trip over this. Thanks, -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.
