On Tuesday 11 October 2011 20:02:41, Panu Matilainen wrote: > This is a bug in rpm's handling of %pretrans dependencies. I'll try to > get it fixed tomorrow, BUT this also does point out a problem in the > package: > > %pretrans scripts can almost never in real life be /bin/sh scripts, > because on initial installation, at the point where %pretrans scripts > get executed there is no shell! Or anything else for that matter. The > only kind of %pretrans script that always work are ones using the > embedded Lua interpreter, ie '%pretrans -p <lua>'. External interpreters > in %pretrans are /supposed/ to work in upgrade scenarios (barring this > bug, duh), but as in practise you can never guarantee a package is only > ever applied as an update on an already running system, %pretrans > scriptlets using /bin/sh or such external interpreter are not usable. Thank you for explaining this. This didn't come to my mind. I will rewrite the script to Lua. RPM is very uncomfortable when you need to replace a directory with a symbolic link. I do not know, how often this is needed, but some "simplification" would be appreciated. ;-) Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
