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. 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. 73 de Jeff