On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:39 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 11:50 -0600, Robert Mecklenburg wrote: > > However when we perform a "yum remove pkga" the order of removal is > > not pkgc, pkgb, pkga. Of course, our situation is more complex with > > more packages and at least one more "layer" of requires. In our case, > > pkga is actually removed before some of the other packages. Since > > pkga contains files needed to remove our other packages (such as > > scripts and shared libraries), the other package removes fail. > > Are you making proper use of Requires(post): ? > > If I understand it correctly, removal ordering and install ordering is > all inside rpm itself, not yum. Yum just hands rpm a transaction list, > rpm figures out what order to do it in. You have to give rpm hints if > you need things for %pre and %post so that it can get the ordering > correct. >
and in various versions of rpm erasure ordering was either 'odd' or 'not working'. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
