message from ldconfig

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jun 23 18:11:15 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 13:43 -0400, John Ellson wrote:
> Why not collect up all post-install scripts, then run ldconfig once after
> all rpms have been installed just before running the post-install scripts?

Because if you have a %pre script that depends on something, you need to
run the ldconfig (and any other things that could happen in a %post)
before the %pre.

Jeremy





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