On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 09:15:49AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 01/21/2012 01:06 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> When updating a package I came across this "Error in PREUN scriptlet >> in rpm package". >> >> Now further inspection revealed that there was a misplaced semicolon >> in %preun section of the relevant spec file. >> >> Easily fixable but what is the proper procedure to fix this via update >> without having the user having to go to a terminal and run rpm -e >> --noscripts $oldpackage to remove the old package? > > Given the lack of response I assume that there is no proper way to > handle this other than forcing users of the particular component to > manually remove the relevant package after that update has been pushed. You might be able to use a trigger or posttrans to fix it. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging