Thanks, Greg, for pointing out these issues. The reason for not doing the installation in the %install is that I'm not sure that the ids_install just create the target directory with its content. If it does other things as well, then this approach won't be sufficient. I have tried 3 methods suggested by Informix for redistribution: 1. Use the deployment utility. Unfortunately I wasn't able to run the ifxdeployassist command. 2. Use the "Extract the product files" option of the installer. The problem with this approach was that I couldn't find the RUNasroot script after the installation. This script, according to documentation, is needed to complete the redistribution of the Informix database. 3. Use the new PRM feature. It worked after overcoming a few problems, but It seems that I will need another RPM to create user Informix before I run their RPM. This seems to be the best option. Can you tell me how you installed previous versions of Informix with RPM? BR, Eran. -----Original Message----- From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Swift Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:14 PM To: General discussion about the RPM package manager Subject: Re: Problem with installing Informix with RPM On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Eran Ben Natan <eranb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have an RPM that installs Informix 11.70.FC5. I never got into the 11.70 release with my package, so not sure if it adds some increased difficultly or changes. > In the %post script I call the Informix installation script in silent mode: > > ./ids_install -i silent -DLICENSE_ACCEPTED=TRUE > -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR=/data/Informix94 -DUNIX_INSTALLTYPE_SELECT=DEFAULT > -DLICENSE_ACCEPTED=TRUE -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR=/data/Informix94 > -DIDS_INSTALL_TYPE=TYPICAL > > > For some reason the script hangs after the installation completes and > is not exiting. Running ids_install from console is working fine. > > The installer displays a progress bar during installation, I don't > know if that's has an effect. So I have a few discussion points on this. 1: Why are you doing the install in %post rather than in %install? Doing it in %install adds the following a: only have to run the ids_install once (on rpm build host) b: the RPM is more standards compliant (no text output, or creating files in a %post section, etc) 2: Have you looked at their 'new' RPM? I'm not sure I trust it just yet, but depending on what you are doing it could save a lot of effort. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v117/index.jsp?topic=%2 Fcom.ibm.embed.doc%2Fids_emb_052.htm _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
