On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:29:50AM -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: > > > > However: what happens if the user was upgrading from older perls and > > still has some (presumably nonstandard) modules in these paths? Will > > the %post somehow move them to newer directories? > > I'm not really sure how that would work - has this been done in the > past? Not to my knowledge. It was just an idea. > It would be tricky in the first place to tell which ones are > 'nonstandard' - I guess 'not owned by an rpm, and wouldn't be copied > over a file owned by an rpm' would be a good heuristic to start with. Yes. By the time you have 5.8.8 perl rpm installed, all the rpm-based modules should have been upgraded (via dependencies) from 5.8.[34]. > That seems a little bit more magic than is healthy for a %post script. > > OTOH, I'd rather not break everyone's perl modules. Sounds like a sane approach. -- Jan Pazdziora RHN Sustaining Engineering, Red Hat
