Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (53 mails)

[Ralf Becker <rb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm building rpm packages for EGroupware (www.egroupware.org).
They have a "metapackage" requiring the default modules and then
executing a post_install script (create database, install EGroupware and
all modules via a comand line client). All modules depend of a core
module, which is also required by the metapackage and which includes the
post-install script itself. (That way you can use the metapackage for
convenience, but you can also install the single packages, if you want to).

What I expect would be the following behaviour:

1. Install required packages (including required core package)
2. Install metapackage
3. Execute post install of metapackage

(That's eg. the behaviour of yum or aptitude).

What happens is the following:

1. Install some of the required packages
2. Install metapackage
3. Execute post install (which fails, because not all modules there)
4. Install some more required packages and core package

I dont understand the reason behind that behaviour and could not find a
way around it. The required packages installed after the metapackage
always changing a bit - thought the majority of the packages is
installed before, but not all.

I already tried with openSUSE11.1 and SLES11:
- PreReq Tag with core package name or file-name
- several ways to background a helper script waiting for all files to
appear in the filesystem - zypper always detects it and waits patiently
for it to exit ;-)
- explicitly specify the core package first on command line:
        zypper install egroupware-core egroupware

Any help is welcome, thanks :-)

Please CC me in your replies, as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Ralf

Ps: I can supply spec file, logs or a repository file to reproduce
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