Brian J. Murrell wrote:
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).
Depends on how you see it and what you mean. Yes, in guidelines for good
& proper packaging, interactivity is probably forbidden. Technically, in
terms of how rpm actually works, it is allowed, as far as I know. Or to
be more precise, rpm doesn't impose any extra restrictions, so
interactivity works, if and only if, it does in the environment rpm is
executed from.
Also, I didn't say *I* would do this, did I?
- Toralf
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