On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:07, Joe Orton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:24:21AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > If PreReq does not "exist" in the sense it used to any more, one such > > "tool" which supposedly nowadays at least partially replaces/provides > > that functionality are "context markers" (ie. Requires(pre) and friends > > if I've understood _that_ correctly). > > > > [1] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2003-October/000095.html > > I thought Requires(pre) and friends are just for dependencies of the > scripts? Hmm, I think, you're mixing this up with BuildPreRequires and BuildRequires. > Can anyone state definitively (and preferably in plain English), if I > have in the httpd-suexec subpackage: > > PreReq: httpd > > the files contained in said package will be installed only after the > %pre script of the httpd package has run? Basically, "PreReq: httpd" denotes that "httpd" must be installed when the package is installed. At least some versions of rpm (e.g. the version shipped with FC2) re-sort package installation order if being given several packages: Example: 2 packages, gaga and gaga-addon, with gaga-addon using PreReq: gaga # rpm -Uv gaga-0-0.fdr.x.i386.rpm gaga-addon-0-0.fdr.x.i386.rpm Preparing packages for installation... gaga-0-0.fdr.x gaga-addon-0-0.fdr.x # rpm -e gaga gaga-addon # rpm -Uv gaga-addon-0-0.fdr.x.i386.rpm gaga-0-0.fdr.x.i386.rpm Preparing packages for installation... gaga-0-0.fdr.x gaga-addon-0-0.fdr.x [Note: rpm modified installation order] If installers (up2date/yum/apt) behave differently (I haven't checked), they'd have to be considered broken :-) Ralf
