To day it is not easy to define install orders for applications.
Making the order in ZCM console acctually be the order bundles install. We can move a bundle up and down in the relationships view, but that does not reflect on actual deploy.
by: Kurt F. | over a year ago | Application Mgmt
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Kurt, there are 2 ways of enforcing bundle order at the moment:
a) Create a bundle which launches the the required bundles with a launch/install bundle actions. This will execute the bundles in the order the actions are defined.
b) You can define a bundle order as in https://www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks113/zen11_cm_software_distribution/data/bs8caks.html#b10n55s0. As much as I remember, if no order is given, bundles are executed in alphabetical order by display name.
I think is is not easy to enforce a specific order of bundle execution just by how they are assigned. There can be many source from where bundle assignment are inherited e.g. depending on the current logged-in user or dynamic group calculations. I think that is why we added this bundle order number to ensure a specific bundle execution order.
Both options are not suitable in most scenarios.
First, a) makes a lot of work (No ZenWork)! And I have to create another bundle group to show the software in the ZCM application window...
Secound, b) is an absolute order over the whole system... But I need a flexible way of distributing software...
Only because something is not easy to achieve, is no excuse of don't supporting it! So please just implement it!