[Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

Thu Apr 26 10:46:59 CEST 2012

On 25 April 2012 20:48, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+>> This is quite an important one for upgrades. I'm not sure I have the
+>> relevant knowledge to do this, but will happily help once the rebuilds
+>> come around. Can someone with more rpm-foo volunteer here?
+>
+> rpm allows to use a script to automatically add requires, but it looks
+> like it's not possible to automatically add Requires(pre/preun) with a
+> script.
+>
+> So we can use find-requires script to automatically add a require on
+> rpm-helper for package containing systemd units. But in that case the
+> package will be installed almost everywhere (I think everybody has at
+> least one package containing systemd units installed) so it's more
+> simple to add the require on rpm or rpm-mageia-setup.
+
+You still can't guaranty it would be installed or updated before.
+
+> Or is there a lot of people uninstalling rpm-helper to save space while
+> they are not installing/updating packages ?
+
+Do you understand what is installing or upgrading?
+Especially what is package ordering at install/upgrade time?
+
+At install time, w/o proper requires/... you can't garanty that
+rpm and thus the packages it requires may be installed after
+the packages needing it for their %post scripts
+=> ERROR
+
+At upgrade time, w/o proper versionaed requiresn you can't
+garanty that rpm and thus the packages it requires wil be
+updated before the packages needing it for their %post scripts
+=> ERROR
+