Re: Yum Package Remove Order
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:11:54 -0500,
Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have been working on packaging software into RPMs for my company.
These
RPMs create directories in %post into which dependent RPMs install
components. If I yum remove the main package it will be erased first by
yum prior to erasing the dependent packages. When the uninstall scripts
for the dependent packages run, they may fail due to files and directories
being missing that they expect from the main package leaving things in an
inconsistent state. Is this a bug or known behavior we need to account for
in some way?
Which way are the dependencies? Normally the packages are removed so that
packages which are depended on by other packages, are not removed until
after the packages that depend on them have been removed.