Using Perl in %post

[Aaron Lippold]

Sorry,

Wrong list :)

On 7/1/07, Aaron Lippold <lippold at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am building a kickstart that is fairly simple but has many
> repetitive actions based on a large set of files.
>
> I have the file sets listed in a simple text file and wrote a perl
> script to simple open the file, read the line, parse the filename and
> output the needed command with the right chunks of the full filename
> in the right places.
>
> I did it in perl and not bash because I am not sure how to do it well
> in bash or sh etc.
>
> I would like to just run this script and or fuction right in mz .spec
> file. I cannot seem to find any data on if I can do this. Or can
> someone show me a quick bash code snip for doing something like :
>
> MYFILE
>  CODE/SET1/File.txt
>  ...
>
> install()
>  open file MYFILE
>  while (file)
>  # a = CODE, b = SET1, c = File d = txt
>    (a,b,c,d) = parse(line)
>    instcmd -n ="b" -f = "c.d"
>  end while
>
> # in the postun section
> cleandb()
>  open file MYFILE
>  while(file)
>    (a,b,c,d) = parse(line)
>    rmcmd -n = c
>  end while
>
> This way I could just define the right fileset for each subpackage and
> I won't have to maintain a list of 100 or more identical opperations,
> just dump an ls into a file for setx-file-list.txt when I need to
> rebuild the rpms for an updated set of file.
>
> Thanks for any help, thoughts and education.
>
> Aaron
>