[Yum] yum in kickstart %post and HP Insight Mgr

[James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]

HP has made a lot of crappy packages.  And they still are.  Red Hat might 
do us all a favor if they send them a copy of the "Red Hat RPM Guide".  In 
a meeting with HP in March, I expressed this to the VP of Linux 
Engineering. 

What I've had to do is re-roll a lot of HP packages.. In my spec file I 
dissassemble the rpm using rpm2cpio and take the crap out of %post %pre 
that I don't want and put it back together.  Seth is right, don't 
encourage them.  Make a working package and email it back to them and tell 
them "this is how it should be done."

The worst package I've ever seen was from Netvault-- Their rpm of their 
backup software basically dropped some files in /tmp and then there was 
%post script that ran the installer.  Ugh, what a complete mess and waste.

James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/31/2005 05:59:02 PM:

> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:55 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:46:10PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> > > written RPMs, this works great.  However, I've come across the 
lovely HP
> > > Insight Manager RPMS (hpasm, hprsm, etc) which seem to run "service
> > > hpasm start" during the RPM postinstall (yuck).  This wouldn't be 
too
> > [...]
> > > Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> > 
> > I know there's the "tsflags=noscripts" option in the config file -- is 
there
> > a way to do that from the command line? Then, you could add any other 
bits
> > of the %post script to your kickstart file.
> > 
> 
> Don't encourage them.
> 
> It does not make sense to add this to the cli in yum in order to work
> around a broken package.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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