On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 12:48 +0000, Dick wrote: > Hello folks, > > We have a RPM which contains a database application which needs to update the > database structure. We do this from the %pre because the database should be > updated *before* the new application is installed. > > The new structure is stored in an external textfile which is used by the %pre > script. At this moment we have a > cat > newstructure.txt << @EOF > ... > @EOF > construction in which we copy the content of newstructure.txt each time we have > an update. But we'd really like to directly include an external file, something > like: > %pre > ... > cat > newstructure.txt << @EOF > %include db/newstructure.txt > @EOF > ... > > Is something like this possible with RPM? We can't use files from %files because > we are at %pre and we can't use %post because then the new application code is > already installed. Something like this should work. Source1: included.txt ... %pre cat > /tmp/included << @EOF %include %SOURCE1 @EOF Paul
