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List:       rpmorg-list
Subject:    RE: Dependency error
From:       "Dale Lovelace" <dlovelace () hotels ! com>
Date:       2002-11-20 12:45:45
Message-ID: 95DD6F026D9C5C459E262B9C385C478E59819F () h-file04 ! 180096hotel ! com
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  You're going about it the wrong way. If B.rpm checks for a condition
inside the spec file, then it gets installed. Do rpm -qa | grep B.rpm
and see if rpm indeed thinks it is installed... It is installed, but the
files within it aren't because you checked for some condition in the
spec file. This is a "Bad Thing[tm]". Your RPM should either install,
and install everything, or fail. Let rpm do the checking for requires,
don't do your own checking.

  What condition are you checking for inside the spec? Chances are there
will be a way to do it with REQUIRES: in your spec file...

  Dale


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fernandez [mailto:michael.fernandez@dms.at] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 8:24 AM
To: rpm-list@redhat.com
Subject: Dependency error

Hi all,

I've created two rpms, let say A.rpm and B.rpm
The package A requires B to be installed. ('Requires:B' in the
specfile of A package).

The package B will not be installed if a condition is not satisfied 
(in the specfile of B package I've put:
   %pre
   if [ my_condition ]
   then
      exit 1
   fi
)

So I want the package A to be installed only if the package B is
installed.
Nevertheless, when I install the two packages (rpm -Uvh A.rpm B.rpm), 
I've got an error for the package B (this is what I want), but the
package A is even installed. Finally I've a package installed but it's
dependencies are not installed.

In fact I want the package A be installed only if B succeed. How can I
do ?

Thanks for your help.

Michael.



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