Circa 2005-06-01 dixit seth vidal: : 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. Whom do you mean by "he"? Paul Nasrat (a responder), or dant (the original poster)? dant put in his subject "%postin hackery", by which it seems fairly obvious he means a %post scriptlet, which is the situation that i was addressing. dant, care to clarify? -- jim knoble | jmknoble@xxxxxxxxx | http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/ (GnuPG fingerprint: 809F:09B9:9686:D035:4AB0::9455:124B:0A62:DD6A:76D6) ..................................................................... :"The methods now being used to merchandise the political candidate : : as though he were a deodorant positively guarantee the electorate : : against ever hearing the truth about anything." --Aldous Huxley : :...................................................................:
