On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Baz wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> So if I cannot pass values by using "rpm -i software_a.rpm STRING1 STRING2",
> then can i do the following:
>
> "export STRING="xxx"; export STRING2="yyy"; rpm -i software_a.rpm"
>
> then in the postinstall section,
>
> I will do the following:
>
> "echo ${STRING1}"
> "echo ${STRING2}"
>
> Will this work instead of the orginal rpm usage then i posted?
>
Yes that will work. Be careful with environment variables though.
Mysterious things can happen with them. I generally prefer to have a file
like:
STRING="xxx"
STRING2="yyy"
And then in the scriptlet I source the file in:
. /path/to/file/with/variable/definitions
echo $STRING
echo $STRING2
This was really what originally suggested, without trying to constrain
you to particular implementation details.
Cheers...james
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