Bug 21881

Summary:	rpm dependency problems when rpms fail to install.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <scott_harrison>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	dr, redhat, tao
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Description Need Real Name 2000-12-07 09:21:49 UTC

If you try and install 2 RPMS, let's say x.rpm and y.rpm and y depends on x
then you might use the command:

rpm -i x.rpm y.rpm

However, if installation of x fails (in the tested case it failed due to an
error in the pre installation script) then y is still installed.  You then
have package y installed, but it's dependency x isn't.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-12-22 14:57:39 UTC

Yup, that's the behavior that is implemented to the best of my knowledge. 

A "fix" is non-trivial, and is gonna take a while, so I'm marking as Deferred.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-11-22 15:06:02 UTC

Detecting all %pre failures before any
package is installed would be very nice to
do, but cannot be done without reworking
rpm's install state machine. Not gonna happen
soon, may never happen.