Hi, Why are you creating these directories in %post in the firs place? If you create them in %install (empty) and own them regularly in %file and do the same on the other packages that install thins on it, they will be properly removed when the last RPM that owns them go away. Regards, Fernando ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Bidewell" <mbidewel@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 9:11:54 AM > Subject: Yum Package Remove Order > > > I have been working on packaging software into RPMs for my company. > These RPMs create directories in %post into which dependent RPMs > install components. If I yum remove the main package it will be > erased first by yum prior to erasing the dependent packages. When > the uninstall scripts for the dependent packages run, they may fail > due to files and directories being missing that they expect from the > main package leaving things in an inconsistent state. Is this a bug > or known behavior we need to account for in some way? > > > Thanks. > > > -- > Mark Bidewell > http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
