Thanks James. I am not clear about this solution. Let me clarify my problem I have created a package ABC-1.1-0.rpm. This package has some bugs, and So i create a new patch rpm ABC-1.1-0patch1.rpm. The new ABC-1.1-0patch1.rpm package contains only those files that are corrected out of "N" files in ABC-1.1-0.rpm. These may be some java class files or other files not really config files. So before I install ABC-1.1-0patch1.rpm, I want to take the backup of all those files that are contained ABC-1.1-0patch1.rpm, which are part of the ABC-1.1-0.rpm as of this time. So is there any way to do so. I think if I have to use rpm -Uvh will erase old package and install new, in my case will only install a few files not all the files. Thanks Sateesh -----Original Message----- From: James Olin Oden [mailto:joden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:32 PM To: sahegde@xxxxxxxxx; RPM Package Manager Subject: Re: Is it possible to refer to the files in the spec's pre script > Hi > I have a requirement that, if my RPM package is overwriting a file(any > file, not only config) from another package, take the backup of that file. > Basically I want to do something like the following in the %pre section > > %files -p $location/files.txt > %pre > tar -cf /opt/changedfiles.tar %{files} > > But this is not working as it is. On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Sateesh wrote: Would be better to scan the files payload of all the rpms that your are going to install/upgrade and then see if they overwrite any files. Those files backup. That said, if your requirements are loose enough that you only need to backup all the files that are owned by each rpm being upgraded, then in that case throw --repackage on the command line (or better yet configure rpm to repackage all erasures, by adding the following to your /etc/rpm/macros file (create it if it does not exist): # # If non-zero, all erasures will be automagically repackaged. # We want all erasures to be repackaged. %_repackage_all_erasures 1 If you take the time before you started the upgrade then you can do: rpm -Uvh --rollback "$TBeforeUpgrade" to roll this back, or you can re-install the repackaged package but you have to throw the --nodigest switch: rpm -Uvh --nodigest --oldpackage repackaged.rpm Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
