On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:15 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I'm trying to install an rpm that has a post-install action. > During this phase I notice with ps that a temporary script > named /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67318 is created and executed. > And its contents are the same as what stored inside the rpm (query > done with rpm -qp --scripts package.rpm) > Inside the postinstall script there is a call to another script > (something.sh). > In this latest script there is a test such as : > > if [ -f $file ]; then > cp -vf $file /some/dir > if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then > echo "$file copied sucessfully!!!" > fi > else > ..... > fi > > I want the script to find the $file so that it skips the "else" > section. > > $file is a filename without any path or prefix. > > I have no source rpm. > > So the question is: supposed that in /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67318 and in > something.sh there isn't any CD command, in which dir would happen the > check about the presence of $file? In the rpm process' current directory. > it seems that if I place the file in the same directory where I run > the "rpm -ivh package.rpm" command doesn't work... Very likely rpm changes to a working directory when it starts up. You could either look at the source of rpm, or run it under 'ltrace' and look for calls to 'chdir'. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
