> > Call off the dogs. > > > > It seems that scriptlets run in a confusing order ... > > > > %pre (new package) > > %post (new package) > > %preun (old package) > > %postun (old package) > > > > ... which meant that my stupid RPMs were stepping on each other. > > > > It's times like these that I miss vendor documentation. > > You need to apply $1 logic in your scriptlets. > > In %post, if $1 = 1, then create the symlink. If $1 -gt 1, only create > the symlink if it doesn't exist (i.e. version changes). In %preun, if > $1 = 1, remove your symlink. Something like that. > Yeah, that's what I ended up doing. Seems okay now with the $1 stubs ... but a whole pile of my RPMs now need rebuilding and reinstalling. Bah. Thanks for the tip, Brian Klaus
