On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/8/19 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> I suspect that at install/upgrade time rpm computes the conflicts >> _before_ %pre runs. > > Well, it has to, doesn't it? It needs to be able to bail out before > changing anything. Sounds reasonable. I'm not familiar enough with the RPM internals to understand when each hook is called, and that key steps are happening between... is this explained anywhere - short if reading the src? > Your options look to me like: > > - make a new package that has files in /here.go.files/ but does not > symlink them, and have that remove the symlinks in %post > > - remove the symlinks and rename the .rpmnew files in %post I'll probably do this. Thanks for the hint... > - declare the symlinks as being config (and they should become > .rpmsave, rather than your new ones becoming .rpmnew, I think; > hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong). I cannot :-/ Part of the problem is that this is a package that was clobbering other packages' conffiles in %post . Evil spawn. The new-and-improved version I have is much saner, but still ends up clobbering a couple of conffiles. As you can imagine - it's not for inclusion in Fedora proper. (Wherever possible it uses conf.d type facilities. And several of the files being clobbered are the /etc/sysconfig/<service> files to point the daemon to an alternative config file. Still, somewhat ugly.) On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > %pretrans runs before the conflicts calculations(...) embedded Lua Wow! Now that's an interesting tidbit. Hmmm, Lua... cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
