Packages adding groups in %pre/post

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said:
>>> How on earth do you get things installed w/o setup first?
>>> glibc -> basesystem -> setup.
>>
>> *shrug* it's just anaconda doing it's package install to build the
>> install image.  Given that shadow-utils doesn't mention setup at all,
>> rpm can't possibly know that setup should come before shadow-utils.
>
> Sure it does.
>
> Package A has a Requires(pre) on shadow-utils. Hence, shadow-utils
> must be installed *and functional* before A is installed. This means
> shadow-utils and all its requirements.
>
>> From there it's a simple dependency chain - shadow-utils -> glibc
> -> basesystem -> setup.
>
> So, if it's not getting installed right, rpm or yum is broken in some
> way.

...or there's some funny new dependency loop somewhere, breaking the 
ordering.

 	- Panu -