Michael Schroeder wrote in Fri 03/20 2009 at 12:21 +0100:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:49:21PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Package smartsuite was renamed to smartmontools, but the
script /etc/init.d/smartd remains without change. Start on installation,
restart (once) on update, stop on
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:49:21PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Package smartsuite was renamed to smartmontools, but the
script /etc/init.d/smartd remains without change. Start on installation,
restart (once) on update, stop on removal.
It's easy top do with package-name based scripts.
Michael Schroeder wrote in Fri 03/13 2009 at 17:24 +0100:
so i am loosing the symlink as it gets removed by the postun in the old
package - i guess i need to work on the install/upgrade/erase syntax in
there but i am struggling to fins an example i fully understand!!
There are two ways to
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:12:01PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
I have been thinking about it as well. Such simple definition may work
in simple cases (foo-1.0 replaced by foo-1.1), but it will be
problematic for more complicated cases:
1) Imagine that package foo-1 is going to be split
Michael Schroeder wrote in Thu 03/19 2009 at 15:35 +0100:
1) Imagine that package foo-1 is going to be split to three
sub-packages: foo-core-2, foo-plugins-base-2 and foo-plugins-extra-2.
Now we are going to upgrade from foo-1 to foo-core-2+foo-plugins-base-2,
omitting the
Michael Schroeder wrote in Thu 03/19 2009 at 16:49 +0100:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:32:27PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Michael Schroeder wrote in Thu 03/19 2009 at 15:35 +0100:
If it obsoletes another package it's an upgrade.
And what if the action you need is say foo-extra-update
thanks - i put this in the %postun
# Only remove symlink if we are erasing package
if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
if [ -h /usr/java/latest ] ; then
rm -f /usr/java/latest ;
fi
fi
but on an upgrade the symlink still got wiped out. I was sure that
looked right when compared to
When an rpm is upgraded is the existing package removed before or after
the post section of the package that is replacing it?
I ask because in my %post of a package a symlink gets created. This
symlink is also removed if the package is removed so in the %postun
If i install the rpm the
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:06:41AM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
New packages files installed
Old package files removed (ones not already overwritten by the install)
postun run
post run
Not really. The order is:
prein new
install files from new
postin new
preun old
delete
