On 07/22/2011 08:11 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: <> > Sorry, I wasn't intentionally obtuse :) 'obtuse' is by no means a word i would use in describing your help. nor 'vague', by any stretching of imagination. 'nebulous', but a stretch of it's meaning. 'guiding in a general direction' does come to mind now that you have me thinking about. :) > A scriptlet is nothing more than a bash script within the spec file[1] > of an RPM package. For your purposes I think the appropriate place to > do what you're trying to do is in the "%post" section. This is > executed after package install. ok.more guidance. !yeah! ;) > Also, if you want to undo whatever you do in the %post script then you > would put that "scriptlet" in %postun. more guidance. !yeah! ;) > Richard > > [1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-scripts.html again, i thank you for you offerings of help. i would not and do not expect an exact answer because what i am questioning is not something that would be normally needed. [years ago, in 7th grade, my homeroom and english teacher told me i was impudent. when i told her 'thank you' and class cracked up laughing, she sent me to principal's office. because principal new me, even she cracked up laughing when i told her what happened. while principal and i walked back to the teacher, we had a very good and enjoyable conversation. when we entered teachers room, principal told her she did not believe that i was impudent and immediately transfered me to another homeroom and a new english teacher. i got along great with both of them.] -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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