Hi, I couldn't find this in Red Hat's Maximum RPM Book, so I'm asking here: in my .Spec file, how do I control the install order of dependencies? The reason this is necessary is that I am installing an RPM that does not specify its dependencies (who would do such a thing? Why, HP! Their Insight Manager Agent and other HP management tools' RPMs have a long list of dependencies that however are however not specified in the RPMs' .spec files.) To deal with this terrible situation I can only make a meta-package that specifies the dependencies. Since the dependencies are for RPMs that also don't have their own deps specified (i.e. the HP System Management Home Page must be installed before various other HP admin tools, and before you can install the SMHP you have to install the Insight Manager Agent, and none of this is specified in the damn RPMs) I need to tell my meta-package exactly in what order to install these other RPMs. The only way I can think of doing it is to make a chain of meta-packages (meta-a.rpm, meta-b.rpm, meta-c.rpm) one for each one of HP's broken RPMs. This would be time-consuming, inelegant, difficult to maintain, and simply suck rocks. So, is there a way that I can do this inside of one RPM, where I list the deps, and say which are to be installed in what order? Muchos gracias for your insights! -Christian _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
