Paul and all, So the suggestion is to use multiple Prefix? I think i gave a bad example to mislead you. What if I only want to input two strings? What can I do if i want to do the following: "rpm -i software_a.rpm STRING1 STRING2" How can i do it? I know about using prefix but i dont think i should use prefix for the input strings, should i? Any suggestion please? I have been searching the web and could not find any example of input parameters for the postinstall process. Thank you. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nasrat" <pauln@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: How can i enter value during rpm -i and use them during the postinstall process? > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:16:02PM -0800, Baz wrote: > > All, > > > > I know I repeat this question already, but I really want to know the > > answers. > > > > 1. I would like to install software_a.rpm with command "rpm -i > > software_a.rpm /opt/mydirectory servername". Where the > > "/opt/mydirectory" is a string indicate the installation directory. > > "servername" is a string value. Both values will be used during postinstall > > process. > > Using /opt/mydirectory is doable using relocation. You need to use Prefix > (note this *is not* %_prefix) as the hint to tell rpm it is locatable and > ensure no path layout dependancy. > > http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-reloc.html has some docs. > > If you use multiple prefixes 0..N I think you can get your servername in there > too by abusing relocate. > > It's been a while since I've looked at this but for the first case: > > In your spec say have: > > Prefix: /opt/defaultdir > > install to /opt/defaultdir > > then rpm --i foo.rpm --relocate /opt/defaultdir=/opt/mydirectory > > That's case 1 sorted. > > Case 2: I'd need to check this but you may be able to simply do: > > Prefix: /opt/defaultdir > Prefix1: /opt/defaultserver > > rpm --i foo.rpm --relocate /opt/defaultdir=/opt/mydirectory --relocate=/opt/servername > > in %post use SERVERNAME=$(basename $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX1) or some such to get > servername out. I'd need to check whether enforcing prefix1 to exist in file > payload is done. If this doesn't work a non existent %dir somewhere sane using > %ghost would possibly work. Note I wouldn't suggest this hack unless you were > %already using relocation. > > > 2. In the postinstall section of the spec file. I can do something such as > > "echo $INSTALLDIR" and "echo $SERVERNAME" to proof that I have past those > > values and can be used. > To use the prefix in post: > > RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX0 > ... > RPM_INSTALL_PREFIXn > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
