rpm installation tests / script tests

[Rex Dieter]

Florian La Roche wrote:

> anything holding back an update of the default snippets we
> propose for Fedora until a more permanent solution in
> rpm/tools is available?

The Snippets wiki has been updated, after getting feedback on the
fedora-desktop list.

-- Rex

> ----- Forwarded message from Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> -----
> 
> From: Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> Subject: Re: rpm installation tests / script tests
> To: fedora-maintainers at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:26:41 -0500
> 
> Alain PORTAL wrote:
> 
> 
>> This is the same error for the 3 packages
>> ERROR: Output running post uninstall script for package
>> piklab-0:0.14.2-2.fc7.i386
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.TpqGGv: line 2: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache: No such
>> file or directory
>> 
>> but
>>
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets?action=show&redirect=ScriptletSnippets#head-7103f6c38d1b5735e8477bdd569ad73ea2c49bda
>> said "Note that no dependencies should be added for this."
>> 
>> So, what we have to do?
> 
> Hrm, looks like an oversight in the guidelines... should probably wrap the
> call in something like:
> 1.  if [ -x /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache ]; then ...
> or
> 2. redirect output (using something like >& /dev/null
> (I use the latter mostly).
> 
> -- Rex