RE: package installation ordering problem

["Moray Henderson (ICT)" <Moray Henderson ict om org>]

>From: Yishai Hadas [mailto:Yishai Hadas aladdin com]
>• The ln utility is part of coreutils-4.5.3-28.1.i386.rpm
>• The ln utility is used in a post script in other rpm of my ISO
>installation.
>• In pkgorder  coreutils rpm appears before the second rpm so that ln
>should exist when the second rpm is installed.
>• I have used the /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers –
>fileorder option to create hdlist & hdlist2 based on mentioned pkgorder
>• The coreutils rpm is part of @Core group mentioned in my comps.xml
>• The second rpm is part of other group from comps.xml.
>
>coreutils is installed after the second rpm and ln command is failed as it
>doesn’t exist yet.

Hi Yishai

Your second rpm needs to specify coreutils as a PreReq, not Requires in its spec file.


Moray.
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