please tag emacs-22_0_990-1_fc7 to fc7-final

Chip Coldwell coldwell at redhat.com
Wed May 23 13:43:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 22 May 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Chip Coldwell (coldwell at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > > Chip Coldwell (coldwell at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > So ... the new package in its %post scriptlet could remove the old
> > > > symlink in /usr/bin (emacs -> emacs-22.0.95) and run alternatives to
> > > > install a new one, but removal of the old package happens afterwards
> > > > and always removes the symlink.
> > > 
> > > %triggerpostun -- emacs < whatever the old one ?
> > 
> > That would cause the old package %postun scriptlet to run, right?
> 
> No.
> 
> %triggerpostun -- emacs <some version specifier>
> 
> means that it should run whenever emacs that matches that version specifier
> is removed.

Actually, Charles R. Anderson posted a patch to that bugzilla (239745)
that fixes the problem using a %ghost file.  I'm leaning toward that
solution (for later F-7 updates and F-8).

Chip

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