Le Fri, 11 May 2007 09:45:52 -0400 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:04:55PM +0530, Kumar, Manish wrote: > > I am novice in RPM . I am writing a spec file in which before > > installation in the %pre section I want to call a script this script > > should take user input like some configuration parameters to > > install the software. > > > > This is a very frequently asked newbie question, and the answer is: > don't do that. Debian do ! but you can tell to not ask. So you're right, don't do that with RPM ^^ >RPM is not meant to be interactive. What would a GUI > tool like yumex or anaconda do when your script started asking > questions mid-transaction? > > If you need configuration parameters, to install, make a wrapper > around the RPM. But even better, make the software configure itself > on first run. A possible solution would be to write a small shell script that installs with the package, and ask the user to run the script somewhere in %post, afterwards. This not a very good idea neither to print some text at install time , but ... it could be a good compromise in some cases. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
