On Sun, 2 May 2004, Baz wrote: > All, > > If my rpm has to check an environment variable, say, BARRY_DIR, then if > $BARRY_DIR does not exist, can the rpm quit gracefully without installing > anything? > Not really. You can die in %pre, and the files in your rpm will not be installed and your packages %post will not run, but the rest of the packages in the transaction will be merrily processed and installed. Now here is the news from the bleeding edge: - There is this patch called autorollback that is now in rpm's cvs (not in any released version) that attepmts to rollback an rpm transaction at the point of failure, if a system is configured to use this behavior. - There seems to be code getting put in for pre transaction, post transaction scripts. The pre-tran scripts run before any package gets run through the package state machine, and if this feature pays attention to the return code of the scripts, you could safely short circuit an install with one of these scripts. Other than those, admittedly on the bleeding edge options, and not really here today, your best bet if this is for a package that you are installing on systems you control, is to wrap your upgrades on your system up with a script that does some pre validation stuff. cheers...james > Should I do this checking in %pre? > > Thanks, and please provide sample code if possible. > > Barry > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
