Tricks for laying down good foundations ;-)

[David Timms]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 07:54 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>> Currently, there appears to be no defined order for install process; in 
>> fact of a default-ish install of 1000 packages, kernel might be around 
>> 850 to 900 into the process, openoffice around 500.
> 
> The order is determined by rpm itself, after sorting out all the install
> loops, the %pre/%post requirements, etc...
Let's say that yum asked to install certain packages, or groups that met 
the above criterion, as 4x separate transactions. Then rpm would have to 
obey wouldn't it ?

DaveT.