seth vidal wrote:
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
Seth -
Sure, bit I want someshit-config to be included in the RPM. I guess
it's up to me to draw the line between the number of packages and the
functionality of each package, and what each package is capable of. I
just wanted to make sure that I was on the right track here.
Thanks
-dant
