Dependency reciprocity : real world problem with httpd and httpd-suexec

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Wed Sep 8 08:07:07 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:24:21AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> If PreReq does not "exist" in the sense it used to any more, one such
> "tool" which supposedly nowadays at least partially replaces/provides
> that functionality are "context markers" (ie. Requires(pre) and friends
> if I've understood _that_ correctly).
> 
> [1] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2003-October/000095.html

I thought Requires(pre) and friends are just for dependencies of the
scripts?

Can anyone state definitively (and preferably in plain English), if I
have in the httpd-suexec subpackage:

PreReq: httpd

the files contained in said package will be installed only after the
%pre script of the httpd package has run?

joe





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