Document dependency qualifiers (#1089) #1508
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Looks good over all. May be there should be a more explicit emphasis that no qualifier (other than |
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%preun and %postun qualifiers also prevent removal, as does %verify, and maybe something else too. The key is not "strength", but rather the time of the dependency - %pre and %post are install-only dependencies, and actually so are %pretrans and %posttrans. Or at least should be. We should actually make meta combined with any order-relevant qualifier an error... |
Add brief explanations on all our qualifiers and their semantics. Also fix the terminology to use "qualifier" rather than "context". Fixes: rpm-software-management#1089
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Clarified the erasure behavior, documented it for pretrans and posttrans too, plus some formatting added. |
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Add brief explanations on all our qualifiers and their semantics.
Also fix the terminology to use "qualifier" rather than "context".
Fixes: #1089