On 1/20/06, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to understand how RPM figures out the success or failure > of its transactions. > > Say you have package "a" which depends on package "b". > > Say in package b's pre-installation script you define a command which > won't succeed. So overall your pre-installation script of package "b" > will fail during installation. Which means package "b" won't install. > > Now, when you do `rpm -Uvh a.rpm b.rpm`, a will install because its > dependency is satisfied but b won't because its pre-installation script's > exit status would be false. > > Does RPM plan to take care of this issue ? If not, is it because it is > fundamentally not doable ? > > IMO, this is an important feature to tackle. > Say you have apache. Your pre-installation script would create user > apache/httpd/www. If that fails, by standards it should abort. > What do you guys say ? If a %pre script fails, the package still gets installed? Joe _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
