On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:07:07AM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:24:21AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
If PreReq does not "exist" in the sense it used to any more, one such "tool" which supposedly nowadays at least partially replaces/provides that functionality are "context markers" (ie. Requires(pre) and friends if I've understood _that_ correctly).
[1] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2003-October/000095.html
I thought Requires(pre) and friends are just for dependencies of the scripts?
Yes, you usually want to ensure that script interpreteres are installed prior to scriptel runtime :)
Can anyone state definitively (and preferably in plain English), if I have in the httpd-suexec subpackage:
PreReq: httpd
the files contained in said package will be installed only after the %pre script of the httpd package has run?
That's the idea, you could test with
rpm -ihv httpd httpd-suexec
vs
rpm -ihv httpd-suexec httpd
Output should be in both cases the same (first httpd then httpd-suexec), if you employ the above change.