(Adding Panu to the Cc)
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"MD" == Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch@dell.com writes:
MD> [...] there's no ordering guarantee between the two such that we MD> know kernel-devel is always installed before kernel.
It should be possible to have kernel-devel have Requires(post): kernel or use some other type of fine-grained dependency to guarantee some sort of ordering.
That doesn't guarantee the right thing -- it's inverted. It makes it so that before kernel-devel's %post runs, kernel must be installed. What Matt needs is a guarantee that kernel-devel is installed (if it will be installed at all) before kernel's %post runs. Right now the only way to do that is for kernel to require(post): kernel-devel, which is obviously not something we want to do.
We've definitely mentioned that non-dependency ordering tags are an rpm wishlist item in the past. Maybe Panu has some thoughts on this?