[CentOS-devel] freeradius-2.1.3 spec

[Niels de Vos]

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> 
>> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>>> I'm not sure how this would be handled if the install was via yum.
>>> Would freeradius be installed first, thus avoiding the errors?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to indicate which package should be installed  
>>> first?  Is
>>> it even worth it?
>> Yes, you can influence the order. I expect you have
>>
>> 	Requires: freeradius
>>
>> for freeradius-libs in the .spec. If you replace that by
>>
>> 	PreReq: freeradius
>>
>> the freeradius RPM will get installed before freeradius-libs.
>> You probably want to push this change upstream by creating a Bugzilla
>> entry for Fedora ;)
>>
> 
> This is not true for years. All requires are used for ordering,
> prereq and requires are handled identically.

Oh, sorry. My knowledge might be outdated... Still need to use
Fedora Core 4 for development and here it still works.


> All that adding prereq does is not ignore a dependency in a loop.
> 
> If you have a loop, then you need to fix the loop, not pretend
> that PreReq: does anything useful.

Well, this mail wasn't about a loop. It's about ordering of packages
where <package>-libs depends on a %pre-scriptlet of <package>.

Can you tell us the correct solutions for this problem?

Thanks,
Niels

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