[Fedora-packaging] Upgrading databases as part of the RPM postinst script?

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue May 8 20:30:09 UTC 2007


>>>>> "MV" == Maxim Veksler <hq4ever at gmail.com> writes:

MV> As part of the software (binaries) upgrade process my rpm will
MV> need to update database scheme (and possibly some configurations
MV> data) inside a mysql database.

I would recommend not even attempting to do that kind of thing.  How
do you know the database is running at the time, or even that it's on
the same machine?

 - J<




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