On Thursday, 11 September 2008 at 10:34, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Seth Vidal wrote: > > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:14 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > >>On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>wrote: > >>> > >>>Here's a proof of concept plugin: > >>> > >>>http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/post-transaction-actions/ > >> > >>Ok cool - with one small fix to the plugin, this simple action: > > > >Thank you, I've applied this to the one I uploaded above. > > > >So this seems to work - now the question is - should we push for this to > >go into rpm instead? > > Not instead, but to rpm *too*, yes. > > Quite obviously an action that's currently done from say %post script > should stay at rpm level, moving some things to be only done once per > transaction is just an optimization really. But yum knows a lot more about > the surrounding world than rpm does, such as which repository a package > came from which is something rpm has no clue about, and thus it can do > things in post-transaction that rpm simply could not do. Granted, but why would it matter where a package came from? All packages should be treated the same, regardless of their origin. I smell some package racism brewing up here. ;) Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
