Hi Resending the message: I need to allow upgrade of package foo version 1 to version 2. In foo-1 there is a dir /dir whereas in foo-2 /dir is a symlink to /dir-relocated . [ note to self: a \n.\n terminates a message ] The problem is , of course, that rpm fails when it tries to unpack foo-2 . It seems to be a known problem. I have the following limitations: 1. I cannot change nither foo-1 nor foo-2 2. I can only use the command 'rpm' itself, and not rpmlib directly . 3. I would very much like to avoid adding a manual execution of a command before I run the rpm command. What can I do? One thing I thought about was to install beforehand a third package with the appropriate trigger scripts for this upgrade . However I see no option to add a trigger that will run before foo-2 is unpackage (no equivalent to a %pre script) . BTW: Is there any way to give rpm a replacement header when installing a package? e.g.: rpm -Uv --add_header 'Requires: foo_2_fix" foo.2.1.i386.rpm where foo_2_fix is a package I add with the relevant %pre script ? Any suggestions? Thanks -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:tzafrir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx +---------------------------+ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:tzafrir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx +---------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
