[Rpm-maint] checking installation exit status / order of deinstallation

[Jason Corley]

You may want to look at JBJ's RPM at wraptastic.org.  Erasure ordering
was added to 4.4.6 and some of the rollback work might apply to your
first question.
Jason

On 3/27/07, Joachim Worringen <joachim at dolphinics.com> wrote:
> I found the following problems with rpm 4.3.3 (I assume they are not
> limited to this version):
>
> 1. Assume we have two packets A and B, with B depending on A. I install
> them both like 'rpm -i A.rpm B.rpm'.
> Problem: installation of A fails (rpm shows exit status 1), but B is
> installed nevertheless. I would expect that the exit status is
> considered, and the complete installation will stop at this point.
>
> 2. Assume the two packets A and B are installed, B is depending on A,
> and A can not be uninstalled when B is still installed. When I call 'rpm
> -e A B', everything works fine, as B is erased first, then A.
> Problem: calling with reversed order on the command line ('rpm -e B A')
> will try to erase A first, then B, which fails. I would expect that the
> order of de-installation is determined by the dependencies, not by the
> argument order on the command line.
>
> I could not locate the rpm bugzilla server to check if these are known
> problems.
>
>   regards, Joachim
>
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