On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:07:07AM +0100, 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? Yes, you usually want to ensure that script interpreteres are installed prior to scriptel runtime :) > 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? That's the idea, you could test with rpm -ihv httpd httpd-suexec vs rpm -ihv httpd-suexec httpd Output should be in both cases the same (first httpd then httpd-suexec), if you employ the above change. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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