[Fedora-packaging] Re: %posttrans scriptlet

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> >> %posttrans runs on installs (good), but not on uninstall (bad).  Any 
> >> ideas?  Am I misunderstanding it, or is this possibly an rpm bug?
> > 
> > Without actually looking, is there %postuntrans or %posttransun?
> 
> Yes, it apparently exists (postuntrans, preuntrans), but they (too) 
> don't seem to work for single package erasure.
> 
> I think it's (mostly) ok:
> 1.  That'll like be a corner case that doesn't happen too often in practice.
> 2.  I consider it an rpm bug, which we should be able to drive to get 
> fixed, right? (:

There's quite a bit of related discussion at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.devel/547/