On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 11:30 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > How hard would be to add to yum hooks where one could specify, > mainly in a spec file although command line options would be handy > too if secondary, external programs to run before and after > transcations which add/replace/remove packages on a disk? > > The main use I have in mind in this moment are installations where > at least some file systems are mounted read-only. Then a program > (script) in a pre-hook could remount these rw and the one from a > post-hook could restore the original mount status. Currently if > running in such situation yum with '-R <delay>' one has to use > not-that-sastisfactory hacks in order not to run into troubles. > Even when doing that "immediately" it is easy to forget that things > are not yet writable. > > Quite likely with such hooks present some other uses will show > up too (like send mail somewhere about recent changes, for example). Menno Smits put together a class called Xtrigger. It's inclusion was based on some other things happening in yum. Those things happened but I think Menno and I have both been a bit busy on some other items to really put it in place. -sv
