On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:54, Jeff Johnson <n3...@mac.com> wrote: > > Requires(pre) is entirely unrelated to PreReq:. > > The "(pre)" is a context marker that indicates that this > requirement is needed solely for installation. > > There are two usage case: > 1) dependencies needed only for an install need not be > registered in a rpmdb after the install has occurred. > 2) by differentiating an "install" from an "erase" context, > certain dependency loops can be avoided. I.e. for installation > (and thw 1st part of "upgrade") there's no need to look at > the "erase" context dependencies. >
Ah, ok. I though they were the same/similar. -- later, Robert Xu ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
