On Tue, 22 May 2007, Chuck Anderson wrote: > 3. Fix the scriptlets in emacs-22.0.99 to that a /usr/bin/emacs will > exist after upgrades. This is more complicated that it seems. Repeating what I just posted to rel-eng: The old package claims to own /usr/bin/emacs: $ rpm -qlp emacs-22.0.95-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm /usr/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.95 /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.95-x /usr/bin/emacs-x /usr/libexec/emacs /usr/libexec/emacs/22.0.95 /usr/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu /usr/share/applications/gnu-emacs.desktop /usr/share/pixmaps/emacs.png the new package does not (it is a side effect of running alternatives in the %post script): $ rpm -qlp emacs-22.0.990-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.990 /usr/share/applications/gnu-emacs.desktop The scriptlets are run in the following order: %pre of new package (package install) %post of new package %preun of old package (removal of old package) %postun of old package So ... the new package in its %post scriptlet could remove the old symlink in /usr/bin (emacs -> emacs-22.0.95) and run alternatives to install a new one, but removal of the old package happens afterwards and always removes the symlink. The only hope would be to put something in the %posttrans scriptlet to check for this possibility and fix it up. Note that if you remove the old emacs package first, then install the new one in two separate rpm transactions, you will get the symlink as expected. Chip -- Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc 978-392-2426 -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
