rpmbuild and upgrades
Markku Kolkka
markkuk at tuubi.net
Thu Aug 25 10:53:11 UTC 2005
Mike McGrath kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 24.
elokuuta 2005 19:25):
> I'm having difficulty with building an RPM file to upgrade.
> The issue comes when I need to add and delete a user. In the
> spec file I have it creating the user in %pre and removing the
> user in %postun. I'm using useradd and userdel to create and
> delete the user. When I build and install the RPM everything
> works as expected, same goes when I remove it. But when I do
> an rpm -U for an upgrade for some reason when all is said and
> done the user does not exist. Anyone know what's going on?
In an upgrade, the new package is installed first and %pre is
executed. Then the old package gets removed and %postun is
executed. You end up with the user deleted.
You should check the numercal argument given to %pre and %postun
scripts to distinguish between install/delete and upgrade. See:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html#s1-rpm-spec-file
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Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka at iki.fi
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