Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 14:45, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > I created the RPM a few weeks back. It contains about a dozen files. > > One of the files needs to be updated. I updated the source and when I > > do rpm -Uvh rpmname, the file is not updated. If I remove the old > > version and then do rpm -ivh rpmname the file *is* updated. > > I assume that you did increment the release number of the RPM, right?
Yes. > > > Yes, there is a post section. It pretty much just sets the file > > permissons to ensure that they are correct: > > > > %post > > chown sa /home/sa/* > > mkdir /home/sa/Desktop > > chown sa /home/sa/Desktop > > chmod 444 /home/sa/Desktop > > You should be able to include the directories and their permissions > within the %files section of the RPM itself, but still there shouldn't > be a big problem with that. (I could see that the "mkdir" part might > give an error if the /home/sa/Desktop already exists -- but the script > should continue anyway.) > > > rpm -qa does show that the RPM was installed, however, using the -U > > option one the one file that was suppsed to change is not, in fact, > > changed. > > > > I used --force as part of the troubleshooting process because I wanted > > to see under what circumstances the RPM worked as expected and under > > what circumstances if failed to work as expected. > > Well I suppose that's an okay use of --force ... :-) Sorry for my > soapbox comments. > > > It works as expected > > if: > > > > No previous version installed: > > rpm -ivh rpmname > > > > Previous version installed: > > > > rpm -ivh rpmname --force > > > > rpm -e rpmname > > rpm -ivh rpmname > > > > It does not work as expected in the following case: > > > > rpm -Uvh rpmname > > This definitely seems odd. > > Is the file in question marked with %config or other special macro, or > is it just a "normal" file? It's just a regular file... > > Is there any way you could post the .spec files in question? Here it is. I'm sure that I did something silly. --- Summary: A file that sets up the SA Menu. Name: sa_menu_update Version: 1.0 Release: 2 Copyright: GPL Vendor: Extension Information Technology (EIT) Source: production_sa_menu.tar.gz Group: Applications/System Packager: Janyne Kizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> %description verbage about the RPM %prep # backup the old files first mkdir /tmp/sa_menu mv /home/sa/* /tmp/sa_menu cd /tmp tar uf sa_menu.tar sa_menu mv sa_menu.tar /home/ets rm -rf /tmp/sa_menu %setup -c production_sa_menu %post chown sa /home/sa/* mkdir /home/sa/Desktop chown sa /home/sa/Desktop chmod 444 /home/sa/Desktop %install mv Backup.pl /home/sa mv ch_pass.pl /home/sa mv logoff_user.pl /home/sa mv no_no.pl /home/sa mv powerdown.pl /home/sa mv printmenu.pl /home/sa mv README_SAMenu.txt /home/sa mv sa_kill.pl /home/sa mv SAMenu.pl /home/sa mv who2.sh /home/sa mv who_short.sh /home/sa mv SAMenu.desktop /home/sa/.kde/Autostart %postun cp /home/ets/sa_menu.tar /tmp cd /tmp tar xf sa_menu.tar mv /tmp/sa_menu/* /home/sa rm -rf /tmp/sa_menu %files /home/sa/Backup.pl /home/sa/ch_pass.pl /home/sa/logoff_user.pl /home/sa/no_no.pl /home/sa/powerdown.pl /home/sa/printmenu.pl /home/sa/README_SAMenu.txt /home/sa/sa_kill.pl /home/sa/SAMenu.pl /home/sa/who2.sh /home/sa/who_short.sh /home/sa/.kde/Autostart/SAMenu.desktop > > If no one here answers your question, you could also consider posting to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list ) > > Hope this helps, > Jeremy > > (been playing with RPM way too much lately, can you tell?) > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- Janyne Kizer Systems Programmer Administrator NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension Information Technology _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
