Re: RPM %post dying - pthread, fork, execve

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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:55:03PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:44, David D. Hagood wrote:
> >   > Just guessing but are you calling rpmtsSetRootDir() before running the
> > > transaction? Even if the rootdir is set to NULL you have to initialize
> > > it on rpm >= 4.1, otherwise all scriptlets will fail.
> > 
> > That was it - thanks!
> 
> You're not the first and probably not the last either (been there... :)
> to miss that bit.
> 
> Jeff & co - how about a little comment in the sources about the
> necessity of calling rpmtsSetRootDir() before rpmtsRun() ?

Probably best as doxygen, if someone feels like knocking up a patch then that's great, else I'll try and look at tomorrow...

Paul


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