work around yum's inability to manage Require(pre): tags in specfiles

diff --git a/config.planetlab/bootstrapfs.pkgs b/config.planetlab/bootstrapfs.pkgs
index 61fd5e2..1075f6a 100644 (file)
--- a/config.planetlab/bootstrapfs.pkgs
+++ b/config.planetlab/bootstrapfs.pkgs
@@ -115,3 +115,11 @@ package: netflow-utils
 package: proper
 # not ready yet
 #package: vsys
+##########
+# yum does not honor Requires(pre): tags
+# so e.g. even though vserver-reference needs coreutils in its %pre, 
+# and rightfully declares Requires(pre): coreutils
+# yum screws up and installs coreutils after vserver-reference
+# so the gory hack is, let's just retry the whole stuff again
+group: planetlab
+