Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (53 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:42:11PM +0200, Ralf Becker wrote:
> 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 attach a solver testcase, i.e. a tar of the driectory created by

zypper install --debug-solver egroupware-core egroupware

Thanks,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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