On 12/10/2015 01:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 12/10/2015 11:41 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> When a %post scriptlet runs, is it guaranteed that the Requires: >> dependencies have been unpacked? I understand that for cycle-breaking >> purposes, it may not be true that the scriptlets for dependencies have >> run. But are the files already there? >> >> (I'm interested in plain Requires, not Requires(post) etc.) > > Requires and Requires(post) are equal in ordering except for > loop-breaking purposes. When no loops are present, both guarantee the > files are there. When dependency loops are involved rpm makes an > educated guess to cut it but obviously there can be no absolute guarantee.
I dispute the “obviously” part, with regard to unpacked files. :) But as I understand it, RPM does not distinguish between unpacking and configuring as a far as dependencies are concerned. This means that when it comes to %post scriptlets, dependencies are far stronger than with Debian's dpkg, and the cycle-breaking mechanisms are required more often. Florian -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
