Michael Schwendt schrieb: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:37:18 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> If I need to echo a message on rpm install, would 'echo message...' in >> postinstall section be the best way? > No. It disturbes the output of tools like Yum. And it is not seen during > automated (nightly) updates. > Better is to add a clear comment in the %changelog. +1, and/or a special "README.Fedora" file in %doc I more and more think we should officially disallow the output from %{pre,post}{,un} scripts in the guidelines. See also this recent discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-December/msg00128.html BTW, I think there was already a consensus some months ago to disallow output from the rpm scripts entirely. But it never found the way into the guidelines afaics :-/ CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list