Hi
What I think is that the installer checks all the dependencies
before installing any thing. If suppost a package "x.rpm" is to be
installed and it is dependent on "y.rpm" & "z.rpm" then if "x.rpm" is
selected, then the installer looks for y.rpm and z.rpm among the list of
files to be installed. If it is there then the installer proceeds, else it
sounds a warning ( install packages based on dependencies ) or something
like that...
Any other suggessions...
-----Jayant
At 01:08 PM 7/3/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Helo list
>
> How does the install program decide in what order to install the
>rpms included a distro? Is it coded in or something, but RHL's
>anaconda does not have anything suggesting that. What I'd like to
>know is how the install program handles the dependencies because in
>case of the graphical and text based installations, the order of
>packages installed is different. While the graphical install seems to
>go about in a haphazard manner, the text based one goes about
>alphabetically after installing the libraries.
>
> Assuming that the program does a rpm -Uvh install on each package
>is not promising. Or is each package installed the gnorpm way, ie, it
>checks the dependencies for each package, then first satisfies the
>dependencies, and then installs the package. While the latter course
>seems logical, I can't explain it from the way the packages are
>installed alphabeticlly in the text install. So what goes on under
>the hood?
>
> -Rgds
>
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