Bart Whiteley wrote: > Mathieu Fluhr wrote: > > The problem is the following: When I update an old version of the > > package to the lastest one for example, the post-installation script of > > the newest one is executed _BEFORE_ the pre-uninstall script of the old > > one. > > > > My question is simple: Is this normal ? And if yes, how can I make it > > work, so that the shortcuts are kept when the package is updated. > > Yes, this is normal. This should be covered in "Hints and Kinks" > (http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/) or something. Maybe it is somewhere but I > couldn't see it. Indeed, during an upgrade, the pre and post scripts of the > _new_ package are executed _before_ the pre-un and post-un script of the > _old_ package. This was also discussed just recently. Here is my post on it. http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2005-June/msg00057.html Bob
