Hello, for reasons I won't go into here, I have a package that installs a file under /etc/package/file.instancename, then the postinst script appends the contents of that file to another (pre-existing) file on the filesystem (say, /etc/mainfile). Similarly, the preun script removes that block of data from the main file and leaves it as it was before the installation. This works nicely and allows us to install multiple instances of the package, each one contributing its own fragment to the main file, and without interfering with each other. The postinst script is carefully designed to do the right thing and not add the fragment twice (essentially, it either deletes the existing fragment in /etc/mainfile and readds the package-provided one, or doesn't touch it, depending on configuration parameters; but it does work ok). This breaks when someone uses rpm -U to upgrade, since it's equivalent to running rpm -i followed by rpm -e, which means that the postun script is ran last, so the end result is that the instance-specific fragment is missing from mainfile after the upgrade. How do people usually deal with this kind of situations? _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
