> -----Original Message----- > From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Cusack > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:13 AM > To: RPM Package Manager > Subject: RE: AutoReqProv > > On June 1, 2005 8:08:32 AM -0700 Aaron Hanson <a.hanson@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> Well, that's not an rpm dependency; libgpm.so merely needs to be > >> installed > >> *with* ncurses (not necessarily before). However, since > ncurses must > >> be installed before mysql, I would expect that this means > libgpm must > >> also be installed before mysql. (All the corequisites of a > >> prerequisite should also be prerequisites, I would think. If not, > >> that sounds like a > >> bug.) > > > > The basic dependency -is- observed; in other words, I > can't install > > mysql without also installing ncurses and gpm. But the > install order > > isn't right. Mysql has this dependency 'Requires(post): ncurses'. > > To enable something in the mysql package to really use the ncurses > > library during the %post script, ncurses -and- gpm must be > installed > > before mysql... > > Then no, the dependency isn't correctly met. > Does 'Prereq: ncurses' make a difference? > > Frank > Don't know. I'll try it (some day :-)) Thanks. -Aaron
