On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Robert Xu <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > FWIW, i have forgotten to tell that the SUSE rpm spec of rpm 4.9.0 122.1 contain
PreReq: %insserv_prereq %fillup_prereq permissions Regards -- > later, Robert Xu > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org >
