On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:41:20PM +0800, Daniel Grimwood wrote:
> The reason is that the rpm currently comes with an install script that
> installs the (relocatable) rpm and then does some trivial modifications to
> some of the files that got installed. (It effectively replaces some tokens
> with RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX in a few files.). I'd like to stick those changes
> straight into a %post script and repackage the rpm to simplify new installs
> and upgrades.
>
> Is this possible/easy to do with rpm? If not then I could try converting to
> deb with alien, putting the post script in and converting back to rpm, but I
> don't know if that would wreck RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX, plus it's not elegant.
In those situations I use the RPM as source file and have a %prep like
%setup -q -c -T
mkdir root
rpm2cpio %{SOURCE0} | ( cd root; cpio -iudm )
This makes future maintenance easy, preserves the pristine source
(which is the third-party RPM in that case), etc.
Lots of third-party RPMs (especially those of *huge* companies) are
crap and show those people do not understand what RPM is meant for.
Especially dropping everything in some directory and have a
multi-thousand-line %post script to actually install the stuff (the
last RPM I looked at from EMC had a 2900+ lines (!) %post script)
seems to be a popular method :-(, thus throwing away most of the
system management advantages RPM offers you.
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