[CentOS-devel] freeradius-2.1.3 spec

Mon Mar 30 13:05:51 UTC 2009
Niels de Vos <niels.devos at wincor-nixdorf.com>

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> 
>> 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 My knowledge might be outdated...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.
>>
> 
> That isn't true for FC4 either. Its been almost a decade
> since requires and prereq are handled identically.

I'm not convinced on this point :-/ Pretty sure there is a difference
when installing only two RPMs with changed Requires/PreReq. However
I checked with rpm, not yum?! (yes, without loops)

[this might get too much off-topic - we can leave it open like this]


>>> 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>.
>>
> 
> If there is *ANY* effect on ordering by switching to PreReq:,
> its *ALL* about a loop.
> 
>> Can you tell us the correct solutions for this problem?
>>
> 
> Not without verifying first that no loops are involved.
> 
> Add -vv to an install or upgrade, confirm that there are no loops  
> involved
> (you will see LOOP: ... messages)
> 
> Otherwise, adding an additional dependency (use Requires: or PreReq: to
> taste, they are synonyms) will change package install (but not erase,
> that's a different problem) ordering.

Ok. Thanks for explaining :)
Niels

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