on behalf of D. Purcell....
From: Daniel Purcell <dpurcell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: HanSon Tieu <hanson_tieu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: post/preun scripts don't work Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:43:22 -0700
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HanSon,
I had the same problem myself last week! I don't know if this will solve your problem or not, but this is what I was trying to do and how I fixed my problem:
I had a target system that I wanted to install RPM to. I put another hard drive into my computer and formatted it, and mounted it as /mnt/new. I wanted to install a bunch of RPMs to my /mnt/new mountpoint. My command looked like this:
rpm -ivh --root=/mnt/new package.i686.rpm
and I'd get error messages on packages that have a %pre tag in the spec file. I read the rpm source code and learned that when you specify - --root, it chroot's to that directory and performs the scripts there. RPM was trying to run /bin/sh, or in other words, /mnt/new/bin/sh, but I hadn't installed my /bin/sh package yet! That's why it was failing.
I then installed by bash (bin/sh) package, and the same error happened again. I realized that I needed to install glibc, libreadline, and ncurses also in order to get bash to run correctly. After I made sure those packages were installed first, everything worked like a charm.
I hope this helps.
BTW, could you post this message on the mailing list? I unsubscribed by accident and can't get to the mailing list today.
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