Not to sound unhelpful, but you should also consider whether you *really* *really* need to do this. At Ximian, we have a rule that a post script can *never* fail, and we arrange things accordingly. Granted, it is yet another constraint to live with, but so far it has served us well. best -f On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 09:20 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I don't know if this is possible, but my RPM consists of > several files that are installed (declared in %files of my > rpm.spec file), and also several steps to be done in post > section, after these files are copied to disk. It is necessary > for this rpm that it is not considered as installed if one of > the steps I'm doing in the post section of the spec file is > failing, so I've returned by exiting with non-zero value > (hoping this would stop the installation procedure), but this > does not help. Strangely enough, when un-installing (with rpm > –e command), if some error occurs in my preun script, then the > rpm is not uninstalled…. > > > > Is there some directive or special value to return for making > the installation fails after installing the rpm files ? Or am > I considering this the wrong way ? > > > > See my article: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034 > > Your looking for the autorollback feature of rpm, or a flavor of it > that does not exist which is a dead stop on failure. Dead stop is > easy but where I work we never found dead stop to be nearly as > usefull as try to automatically roll things back. > > Cheers...james > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list -- _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - http://www.lucifredi.com _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
