Re: [HELP NEEDED] LUA expert to help convert fedora-release %post scripts

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On 03/03/2016 10:22 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 
>> So what I am looking for is someone who is fluent in LUA to help me convert
>> these scripts over so that they can run entirely under the built-in LUA
>> interpreter of RPM and eliminate this problem.
> 
> I know that the language is spelled “Lua”, not “LUA”.  Not sure if
> that's enough qualification.
> 
> The fundamental question is whether you want to preserve this script as
> a Lua script, for running outside of RPM.  If not, we can
> constant-propagate the command line flags into the script and simplify
> it somewhat.
> 

The ideal case is for it to be usable by the end-user to change the Edition (or,
more commonly, assign one if it's non-product at the moment). That said, I'm
open to treating that as a nice-to-have and fixing just the install/upgrade
cases right now.


> Note that the script would have to run under the RPM Lua interpreter,
> the plain Lua interpreter does not provide some required functionality
> (such as posix.files function).  And you cannot run the script from a
> file system path, you have to put it directly into the spec file.
> 

So all the content has to be inline, or we can create a common script/function
and call it multiple times?


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