OK. I tried to install A and B in the same rpm command and see the same behavior. Thank you for clarifying this issue. -----Original Message----- From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Antill Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:55 PM To: rpm-list Subject: Re: Dependencies ignored with rpm install On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 14:38 +0200, Eran Ben Natan wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have a package B that requires A. When I run 'yum install B' and A > fails, B is installed anyway. Is this the right behavior? Can I change > it? [...] > Running Transaction > > Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package A-1.0-1.x86_64 > > error: %pre(A-1.0-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 > > error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping A-1.0-1 This is a pure rpm thing, rpm doesn't undo parts of the transaction when a prein scriptlet (or something else) fails. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
