On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 17:42 -0400, Jim Knoble wrote: > Circa 2005-06-01 dixit Paul Nasrat: > > : And what happens if someone uses a non rpm cli to do the install > : (rpmlib) potentially via a gui, or via kickstart. > > Then the postinstall script runs, and somecommand runs and gets its > input programmatically from a here document or an expect script and ... > it's the same no matter what method is used to install the package > (apart from rpm2cpio). > > : rpm installs are designed to be non-interactive. Instead write a config > : program users can use post install. > > That's what this whole conversation has been about. You obviously > haven't been paying attention. he doesn't mean %post install. he means after the whole transaction is done. # rpm -ivh someshit.rpm someshit ############################### 100% # someshit-config --make-it-work -sv
