On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 22:04 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > >>> %posttrans works now afaik. Is there something you want that isn't there > >>> now? > >> > >> Ideally, merging of identical %posttrans. > > > > ... and, running on uninstall as well. > > Rather than trying to figure identical %posttrans between packages, I'd > like to see a mechanism to allow packages flagging things like "after > install/removal I need a) ldconfig run b) icon cache updated" and > have them run centrally after everything else has completed (lets call it > "%sysposttrans" that gets run after any non-empty transaction has fully > completed). Basically what was discussed in this thread: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00061.html > > I remember when some years ago something like > > [ -x /usr/bin/update-foo ] && /usr/bin/update-foo > > was copy-pasted into dozens of packages, only there was a typo that caused > every such scriptlet breaking and needed another mass rebuild to fix. If > it had been just a flag to do "update-foo" then the actual update-foo > script could've been fixed just once instead of having to copy-paste it > into every bleeping package and ran several times during a transaction. > Obviously packages have their special needs and not everything can be > generalized, but there are plenty enough things where this would be > applicaple. > > - Panu - > /+1. icon cache, ldconfig, depmod, etc are common things. No need to copy-paste the same code over and over and over.... and over again. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
