Re: rpm user input

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On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:09 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> You can enter any program/command in the %pre and %post sections of the 
> spec, including ones that ask for user input. These sections are 
> essentially scripts that get executed before and after the files are 
> installed, respectively. If the %pre script(let) exits with a "false" 
> (non-0) status, the rpm won't actually be installed.

Ehm.  I thought interactivity in rpm scripts was verboten.  I thought
one of the primary tenets of RPM packages is that they MUST do their
work without any interaction as interaction may not always be possible
(think batch installation).

b.

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