On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Troy Dawson wrote: > Piela, Ben wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Is there a way within a spec file to distinguish whether or not your RPM is > > being installed via a kickstart or is it being installed on an existing > > server? Perhaps you can write some scriptlet that will act one way during > > an installation via kickstart and another way during a manual installation > > on an existing server... > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Ben Piela > > > > I don't know why you would want to do this, but you probrubly have your > reasons. The only reason I can think of is that your rpm doesn't install > correctly during a kickstart (or install) versus a regular install. There are > usually other tricks to make it work right. > > BUT ... just incase there is some legitimate reason, I had done something > similar. Basically, I wanted a different script to be installed if a rpm was > installed via YUM versus if it was installed any other way. The technique I > used should work. > > Basically, just find something unique that you would be able to see during an > install, that you wouldn't see after the machine was up. In your %pre, %post > or whichever script, do a check for that thing, then if you see that thing run > your 'kickstart' commands, and if you don't, run your 'normal' commands. > And one way to force that "thing" to be always available to check is to touch a file in your kickstart %pre, and remove it in your kickstart %post. Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
