Howto print message on rpm install?

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 07:30:00 UTC 2006


On 27 Dec 2006 00:50:26 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "TL" == Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> writes:
>
> TL> Something for the next-gen rpm? Or should we try to build
> TL> something around the current rpm?
>
> It could be as simple as shipping a script to be called in an RPM
> scriptlet which reports errors in various ways.  Default to something
> like mailing root but let the administrator to configure it to do
> other things.
>
> Unfortunately that would clutter up specfiles with extra
> "Requires(post):" bits.

Whats wrong with using syslog?




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