On Monday, 30 June 2008, at 23:06:41 (-0400),
Jay Soffian wrote:

> I've got a vendor-provided RPM which I am *not* in control of. I have
> two other RPMs which I *am* in control of, one needs to go before the
> vendor-provided RPM and the other needs to go after it. So:
> 
> - my-pre.rpm
> - vendor-provided.rpm
> - my-post.rpm
> 
> Obviously, I can add a "Requires: vendor-provided" to my-post.rpm, but
> that doesn't help with my-pre.rpm. Which is why I was hoping that just
> specifying them to /bin/rpm in the right order would work properly.
> Sounds like it should.

Is it possible that what you're trying to accomplish might be better
done with %triggers?  Or are these strictly file-/content-based
dependency ordering issues?  More details might help clarify. :)

Michael

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