On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 01:25 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Huh - that's handy, and I did not actually know --nopostun (something > > new every day, etc.). It does involve including instructions on how to > > find the package, though, which would inevitably go stale as it moves > > from u-t to stable. Still, thanks. > > > Seeing how this is not the first time a broken %postun script causes > unfixable trouble with updating a package, I think RPM really needs a way > for a new version of a package to override the old version's %postun. It > would be similar to how triggers work, but it should run INSTEAD OF the > original %postun, not in addition to it. (As I understand it, postun > triggers unfortunately run in addition to normal %postun.) Yeah, that would be handy for sure. We're kicking around ways to use a %pre to subvert the effect of the %postun in the bug report right now, but having a dedicated mechanism would be handy. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
