On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Christian.Rohrmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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.
Yep, but sometimes rocks is all you have to suck, rpm orders package
installs
based on dependency relations. No relations == any order is
permitted, its called
mathematics.
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?
Nope. Well you can try invoking rpm -Uvh within %post, and rpm -evh
within %preun,
adding --nodeps to install contained *.rpm files, but that cure may
make you wish for tastier
rocks instead.
You can also try to do what anaconda does by adding --anaconda when
installing,
and then insuring that the arguments given on the rpm CLI are ordered
correctly.
Way easier to fix the original package, or add a meta-package by
sucking rocks imho.
73 de Jeff
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