On Friday 02 March 2007 11:06:27 Michael Schroeder wrote:
Not true, rpm uses requires and prereqs for ordering purposes.
Ok, let me clarify. A plain Requires: doesn't guarantee that the Required
package will be installed before the package Requiring it. It just means it
either needs to be there before hand, or in the same transaction. Things
like %post/%pre requires and PreReq help rpm in ordering the transaction to
make sure the the things that are needed at install time are actually there,
vs things needed at runtime.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora