Description of problem: When installing (I use kickstart, but shouldn't matter) with an updates repository configured, packages get installed out-of-order so preinstall scriptlets fail. One example is shadow-utils is installed after sendmail, which runs useradd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kickstart a base system (that is, just @base and @core) with: repo --name=updates --baseurl=file:///tmp/a where /tmp/a is a NFS mounted mirror of the fc6 updates repository. Relevant %pre section includes: mkdir /tmp/a mount -o ro nfsserver:/path/to/updates /tmp/a Actual results: Note the numerous warnings and failures in /root/install.log. In particular, shadow-utils got installed near the bottom, so most packages that wanted to create local system accounts run 'useradd' failed (such as sendmail). Expected results: packages would get installed in the proper order like they somehow do in the install without an updates repo configured. Additional info:
Created attachment 142091 [details] anaconda /root/install.log of bad install
Created attachment 142092 [details] /root/install.log of install w/o updates repo configured (good)
Further inspection of the logs reveals that whenever there is an update to a base packageA, it is not installed until later, even if a packageB requires packageA. E.g., grep installed with warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2189: line 1: /sbin/install-info: No such file or directory That happened because 'info' hadn't been installed yet, even though grep does have a dependency on /sbin/install-info: $ rpm -q --requires grep | grep install /sbin/install-info
*** Bug 217476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 215801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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