Howto print message on rpm install?
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 13:43:18 UTC 2006
Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:37:18 -0500, Neal Becker wrote
>> If I need to echo a message on rpm install, would 'echo message...'
>> in postinstall section be the best way?
>
> You don't, as a general rule, since there is no guarantee that anyone will
> be able to read it (think GUI frontends to yum, for example)
>
I'm pretty sure I've seen examples of this. Even though, as you say, it is
imperfect. It's used to tell the user, 'now you need to create a config
file' or something to this effect.
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