Casey Dahlin wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 21:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> >>> I just attempted to compose the Games spin for Fedora 10, and ran into a >>> number of packages that fail their %post scripts due to missing one >>> thing or another out of coreutils (such as ln, rm, file, etc..) and it >>> has me wondering what might have changed in recent time so that >>> coreutils wouldn't be installed earlier in the transaction. This seems >>> like something that would have been noticed before, but maybe it's just >>> in the particular package set that the games spin has. >>> >> >> It's actually a pretty common phenomenon related to packagers thinking >> they're "always" there because they are except in the case of new >> installs. coreutils is actually surprisingly late in install order and >> so there are pretty frequent packages which pop up expecting otherwise >> (and there always have been; I've been filing bugs about them for longer >> than I like to remember :-) >> >> Jeremy >> >> > We can look at binaries to see what libs they need, can we not look at > %post scripts and figure out if coreutils is required? > conditionals mess things up in %post scripts. -Toshio
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