Installation order of basesystem, filesystem and setup.

[Phil Knirsch]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 11:06:27 Michael Schroeder wrote:
>> Not true, rpm uses requires and prereqs for ordering purposes.
> 
> Ok, let me clarify.  A plain Requires: doesn't guarantee that the Required 
> package will be installed before the package Requiring it.  It just means it 
> either needs to be there before hand, or in the same transaction.  Things 
> like %post/%pre requires and PreReq help rpm in ordering the transaction to 
> make sure the the things that are needed at install time are actually there, 
> vs things needed at runtime.
> 
> 

Well, current rpm code as it is still honors this, Jesse, and i think 
thats what Michael just wanted to point out.

Simple Require chains will get ordered properly today in rpm and should 
in any future version of it too (Although stricktly speak you're of 
course right. Only any pre requires need to be absolutely followed as 
otherwise during installation things will go badly wrong).

I don't wanna beat a dead horse here and i'm certainly not biased to any 
form of proper order we're installing basesystem, filesystem and setup 
here. I was just surprised that the Requires were setup in like this 
between the those packages in that order (as was the package reviewer of 
basesystem) with a description like that in basesystem. I'd wouldn't 
have any problems dropping basesystem and just keeping filesystem and 
setup either. Or just leave it everything as it is.

I just wanted to bring this up during the review of basesystem as both 
my reviewer and myself found it a little wierd that "first package 
installed on a system" actually could never be the first package 
actively installed.

Final option ofc would be to just change the description ofc (doh!) and 
be done with it.

Like:

Basesystem defines the components of a basic Fedora system (for
example, the package installation order to use during bootstrapping).
Basesystem should be in every installation of a system, and it
should never be removed.

How's that?

Read ya, Phil

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