Seth Vidal wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, David Timms wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 07:54 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>>> Currently, there appears to be no defined order for install process;
>>> in fact of a default-ish install of 1000 packages, kernel might be
>>> around 850 to 900 into the process, openoffice around 500.
>>
>> The order is determined by rpm itself, after sorting out all the install
>> loops, the %pre/%post requirements, etc...
> Let's say that yum asked to install certain packages, or groups that
> met the above criterion, as 4x separate transactions. Then rpm would
> have to obey wouldn't it ?
>
Sure, but what does that have to do with anything?
Obviously he is looking at a problem and trying to provide ideas to
improve the situation. I assume, the fundamental idea of installing the
base dependencies first if that makes sense should be a enhancement
request to rpm instead of working around it in either Anaconda or yum.
Rahul