On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:07:07 +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, but since the scriptlets are contained within the same package, Requires(pre) is the earliest you can get for specifying pre-install dependencies of the entire package. > 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? Whatever package contains above line will be installed after httpd has been installed. httpd becomes a pre-install requirement. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.8-1.521 loadavg: 2.43 2.18 2.26
