[Rpm-maint] discussion on problems of RPM in real life packaging

[Stanislav Brabec]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 
> > Seth Vidal wrote:
> >
> >> %pretans plays all sorts of hell with chroot installs. We tend to
> >> discourage them as much as possible.
> >
> > Why they are different than %post in chroot?
> 
> b/c %post happens AFTER the chroot exists. %pretrans would happen before 
> it exists.

In theory, adding some PreReq tags should split installation to more
transactions, but AFAIK, "Requires(pretrans): glibc" is not implemented
yet. I did never experiment with it.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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