On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>Speaking of the order in which scripts are run (but unrelated to this
> >>discussion): the logic that is supposed to invoke postinstall scripts in
> >>topological order of dependencies doesn't seem to work -- instead of being
> >>invoked when their respective packages are traversed, the postinstall
> >>scripts are executed by the catch-all clause (and thus in alphabetical
> >>order).
> >
> >Yuck.
> >
> >Does anyone know how rpm/deb handle this kind of issue?
>
> rpm does a topological sort based on dependencies. Some of the
> dependencies are supplied in the rpm spec file, but many are derived by
> an internal rpm algorithem which figures out requirements for things
> like shared libraries and perl modules.
Setup already has the logic to do this topological sort -- sorry if that
was unclear. What I meant was that the sort is done, but the scripts
aren't invoked in the sorted order.
Igor
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