rpm installation tests / script tests

[Wart]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.

What about adding 'Requires(post): coreutils' to ensure that the 'touch' 
executable is present[1]?  Or adding "|| :" at the end of the touch 
command to avoid errors from being printed if it is not?

--Wart
[1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246770

>> ----- 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
> 
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