RPM installation order

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Jerry James wrote, at 12/01/2009 02:29 AM +9:00:
> I'm looking into a gcl bug (I maintain gcl):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541050.
> 
> The problem appears to be that the order of RPM installation is
> unpredictable.  There is a subpackage, gcl-selinux, which provides
> policy files for use by other packages that build executables with
> gcl.  That package installs a policy, gcl.pp, and then does this in
> %post:
> 
> /usr/sbin/semodule -i %{_datadir}/selinux/packages/gcl/gcl.pp || :
> /sbin/fixfiles -R gcl restore || :
> 
> This works great when the main gcl package is installed first,
> followed by the gcl-selinux package.  However, sometimes RPM installs
> them in the other order.  

Umm, I checked F-12 gcl.spec and there is no such Requires relation
between two packages (i.e. -selinux subpackage does not have
"Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}" or so), so it is natural
that the order is inpredictable.

Regards,
Mamoru