On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:29:11AM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote: > >So, here's another weird thing. On systems where AFS was busy when it > >tried to stop it -- part of the openafs-client preuninstall check which > >only runs when $1=0 (that is, on package erase), everything ended up > >running fine. But what in the world would cause it to even *try* if it's > >updating, not removing? > The preuninstall script is called when any package is removed, > including the older version. I think the "$1 = 0" guard means the > script is passed the number of that package left. Anything that needs > to done only when the last package is removed needs the guard. Err, yes, in theory. However, if you notice, this script is guarded in that way, and yum *says* that it is upgrading the package (so the script should not run) but in actuality the script is executed with $1=0 and the package erased. That's the problem. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
