Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxx> wrote on 08/04/2010 03:31:42 PM: > On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Greg_Swift@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > I'm thinking we aren't gonna get anywhere with this, but I'm looking to see > > if anyone has any suggestions? > > > > Use a %pretrans, perhaps with "-p <lua>" to avoid complex > dependencies is the short answer. > > There's another approach in two steps that is possible as well, > but you MUST perform a two staged upgrade in order to remove > the old directory on the path first. > > All of this has been with RPM (and cpio and tar and ... other archivers) > since Day 1. Well... I was about to try Jeff's suggestion, but before he got to me I attempted placing the very ugly hack of removing the directory /usr/java/jdk1.6.0 which belongs to the packaging being obsoleted into the %pre section of the package doing the obsoleting. I honestly thought this wouldn't work and that I'd be back to the same issue I had with the %post section, BUT it worked. *shakes head* -greg _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
