Re: user input at install time?

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I want to ask user for IP-Address and port number at pre-install time.
then, add those information in the cofiguration file at post-install time.

Paul Nasrat wrote:
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:37:17PM -0800, Ben Tu wrote:
  
Hi All,
I would like to build an RPM package that would ask the user for input 
at pre-install time and
use those inputs at post-install time. does anyone know how I can do it?
Can I ask user for input in the %pre script and retrieve those inputs in 
the %post script?
    

No.

RPM is designed to be non-interactive - consider what occurs should you not be installing via a tty - such as with a depsolver (yum/apt/up2date) or a gui.

Without some more clue to what sort of actions you are trying to take it's pretty impossible to suggest alternatives, however here are some thoughts:

1) Encapsulate the dialog on first run.  This is done by packages such as the macromedia plugin rpm: http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpmsource/
2) For path changes just make a relocatable rpm

Please provide some more details about what exactly you are trying to achieve.

Paul

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