On Thursday 17 February 2011 17:26:37 Fawad Ali wrote: > I am new to rpm and to rpm packaging. I was asked to copy a > war file from one location to another. through rpm. I packaged that. > So what it does is like below. > 1) Copy file to AUTODEPLOY folder in tomcat server > 2) From the AUTODEPLOY folder the tomcat server picks up the war file > and explodes it in WEBAPPS folder and removes the content from > AUTODEPLOY. I'm not sure rpm is the right tool for the job in this situation IMHO. > > Now if I want to REINSTALL, it should first check that whether WEBAPPS > contains the exploded war file or not. If yes, then it should display > that package is already installed and skip the installation, if the > web apps does not contain the exploded war file then it should force > the installation process. > You can do the testing in the %pre section and exit with an error value if the file is already there although this is a dirty workaround. If I'm not wrong, there are macros like %if, check in /usr/lib/rpm/macros -- Regards, Marc Deop _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
