[Bug 165314] Review Request: kismet -- A WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS

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Summary: Review Request: kismet -- A WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165314





------- Additional Comments From jkeating at redhat.com  2006-04-25 16:25 EST -------
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #20)

> > ... are required resp. the best current way to express:
> > 
> > * the directory must exist before the package places files into it. Else,
> >   when the directory is a symlink (e.g. compare /etc/init.d) in the owning
> >   package, you will create oddities.
> > 
> > * the package must be removed before the directory. Else, the directory
> >   can not be removed because it still contains files from 'kismet' and
> >   becomes orphaned.  Therefore, a strict '%crontabdir -> kismet' order
> >   on installation, and 'kismet -> %crontabdir' order on uninstallation
> >   is required. A plain 'Requires:' does not *guarantees* such an order.
> > 
> 
> I understand / already thought as much, but in essence this means that you
> require the crontabs package so why not just replace these 3 lines:
> Requires(missingok):	crontabs
> Requires(pre):		%crontabdir
> Requires(postun):	%crontabdir
> 
> with:
> Requires:		crontabs
> 

Because with a transaction that includes the removal or addition of crontabs,
unless (pre) and (postun) are used this could get installed prior to crontabs
and thus you run into the chicken before the egg syndrome.  If the other package
contents need to be on the file system before this package can install, and need
to remain on the file system until after this package is removed, then it needs
(pre) and (postun) requirements.

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