query post/postun/preun dependencies for a rpm

devzero2000 devzero2000 at rpm5.org
Thu Dec 18 16:55:02 UTC 2008


Yes, I know.

Do you think is it necessary o useful to store in rpmheader information on
Require(post) anyway ?  Why should be rpm or a depsolver use it after
install ? Apart query it, of course.

Elia

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Panu Matilainen
<pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, devzero2000 wrote:
>
>  The Requires(post) context marker exists only for breaking loop deps at
>> the install package time.So it is not necessary to register them in an
>> rpmdb because they were needed only
>> for installing, not for using or erasing, a package. The %post scriptlet
>> is run only during install, never run after install.
>>
>
> They're filtered out from the require *index*, not the headers stored in
> rpmdb. Very different thing.
>
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