Steve Connell wrote: > > Hi - > > I have been assigned the task of finding an installation method for my > company's software for Linux, and it seems that using command line RPM > is the best way to go about this. The problem, however, is that I must > meet a requirement to display an "End User License Agreement" (EULA for > short), which our customers who use the software must agree to before > being allowed to continue with the installation. > > I have tried to add a "read" command in the %pre section, in order to > ask the user if they agree to this EULA, but this does not work for some > reason. I have seen other questions posted regarding similar problems > with reads in %pre, and the responses have basically said that you can't > and shouldn't do this. > > Does anyone know a way to incorporate a EULA into a command line RPM > "install?" Is it true that there is absolutely no way to query the user > for input inside of %pre? If I can't find a way to meet this > requirement, my boss is going to recall the use of RPM from our > project's plan. RPM seems to be a very useful and powerful tool, and it > would be really disappointing if we have to omit it because of this. > Requiring installs to be interactive is a Windows braindeadism, which is the reason you shouldn't do that. If you have to wrap it, wrap the RPM and make it available for unattended installation after it has been extracted. -hpa _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
