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Re: current package depencies


On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 09:41, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> > File extraction completes before any postinstall script executes.  So
> > any info files just dropped in will be fine.
> >
> > Rob
> 
> I see.  So this should work ok for now, as no info files are created by
> postinstall scripts (unless the gcc-mingw one creates some?).
> 	Igor

Exactly.

Also of note, the topogolical order of _update... is not last - the
script is update-info-dir.sh.

Lastly, the dependencies are actually reversed:

foo depends on bar, means that bar must install and run it's postinstall
script before foo.

So, conceptually, the updater should depend on the packages it updates,
not the other way around. 

Thats a larger change though, and one the approach we use (install all
files, then run scripts) doesn't require it in this case.

Rob

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