On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:42 PM, devzero2000 <pinto.elia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Vinay Kalkoti <kalkoti.vinay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi,
I have a tar file which I need to untar and run a script which is
inside that. Is is possible to create an RPM package which will copy
this tar file to a location, untar it and run the script when I
install the RPM ?
Sure, open the tar in %install where do you want and in %post execute your script. But if you want to this why use a
if you want to do this. sorry
package manager in first place ? What do you do in the script and with the tar file are hidden to the rpm, the content are no listed in %files section, so you have no value added from using it (RPM). Perhaps I have not very understood well what you want to do, but at me seems similar to what someone want to do to packaging some proprietary sw : in the spec they install the original software somewhere, and list it in %files, and in %post install call the installation script, that probably install the sw in other place. Result: rpm cannot know which files you have installed, if they are of configuration or not, the dependencies probably. In synthesis this a rpm that it is not a rpm, because a package manager is different from a tar : it contain metadata,Hints : what happens if you want remove a package built in this way ?
hth
Thanks,
Vinay
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