Hello, I have some questions regarding rpm installation and script run order. It is for texlive, and I use letters that corresponds with: A texlive B texlive-texmf C kpathsea D texlive-fonts E texlive-fonts-texmf sA updmap-sys We have: A Requires: B C D B Requires: C Requires(post): sA C doesn't requires anything, but has a post script (ldconfig) that must be run before it can be used by programs in A or B. D Requires: E Requires(post): sA E Requires(post): sA The script sA is in A, but to be succesfull, it has to be run with A, B, C and D installed. If run multiple time, only the last run must be succesfull, but it should be run with all the packages that Requires it installed (B E), it is not a problem if previous runs are done wrong. Unless I am wrong, in that kind of setup all the packages will be installed in the same batch (except maybe for C, but no user will ever install C directly). I am not sure, however, what would be the order of installation of those packages, nor when would sA be called. For example, since C doesn't have any Requires(post) on A would it be possible to have an install order with C in the end, and the post scripts run before C is installed? Maybe there are other subtle possible failures? Also is the installation and post script run order dependent on which package is selected for, say a yum install, that is will: yum install A yum install E yum install B and so on and so forth give the same installation and post script run order? My question may be a bit confused, so don't hesitate to ask for more info. Also I couldn't find a place where such issues are explained in depth. In the usual rpm manuals there are some explanations, but not precise enough. Is there some doc I could have missed? The example is a bit simplified, since additionnally there is a dependency cycle between texlive-dvips and texlive-fonts, and also there is texlive-latex, but the issues faced shouldn't be different than for the example above, unless I missed something. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
