In regard to: Insert a %post into existing rpm?, Daniel Grimwood said (at...:
I have a binary commercial rpm (Intel Compiler) that I would like to put a %post script into. 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.
If your goal is to avoid using their install script but you want the same mods to happen under a procedure that's totally controlled by RPM, look at using triggers. The advantage is that you don't have to modify their RPM in any way; you just install their RPM(s) without using the install script, and the trigger you've written and installed can fire and do the same thing the Intel install script would do. The disadvantage is that if anyone ever uses the Intel install script to do the install, your trigger will still try make the modifications. This may cause problems for either your trigger or the Intel install script, depending on what the script does. Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
