Jesse Keating wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:06:27 Michael Schroeder wrote:
Not true, rpm uses requires and prereqs for ordering purposes.
Ok, let me clarify. A plain Requires: doesn't guarantee that the Required
package will be installed before the package Requiring it. It just means it
either needs to be there before hand, or in the same transaction. Things
like %post/%pre requires and PreReq help rpm in ordering the transaction to
make sure the the things that are needed at install time are actually there,
vs things needed at runtime.
Well, current rpm code as it is still honors this, Jesse, and i think
thats what Michael just wanted to point out.
Simple Require chains will get ordered properly today in rpm and should
in any future version of it too (Although stricktly speak you're of
course right. Only any pre requires need to be absolutely followed as
otherwise during installation things will go badly wrong).
I don't wanna beat a dead horse here and i'm certainly not biased to any
form of proper order we're installing basesystem, filesystem and setup
here. I was just surprised that the Requires were setup in like this
between the those packages in that order (as was the package reviewer of
basesystem) with a description like that in basesystem. I'd wouldn't
have any problems dropping basesystem and just keeping filesystem and
setup either. Or just leave it everything as it is.
I just wanted to bring this up during the review of basesystem as both
my reviewer and myself found it a little wierd that "first package
installed on a system" actually could never be the first package
actively installed.
Final option ofc would be to just change the description ofc (doh!) and
be done with it.
Like:
Basesystem defines the components of a basic Fedora system (for
example, the package installation order to use during bootstrapping).
Basesystem should be in every installation of a system, and it
should never be removed.
How's that?
Read ya, Phil
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