Hi
Thank you for the response Panu!
Actually we solved this by calling a python script to check the version numbers.
Regards
On 4 November 2014 08:22, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doing rpm queries from inside rpmbuild isn't any more recommended than install-time scriptlets, for similar reasons, and it wouldn't help anyway if you need to do such decisions at install-time.On 10/07/2014 11:00 AM, Morgan Cox wrote:
Hi
I am trying to build an RPM that when installed/upgraded checks the
present version of the package and depending on if the present version
is a certain version or higher -> do something if lower -> do something
else.
i.e if present version is 1.0 or higher -> do something
else
if present present version is < 1.0 -> do something else.
I have been told that I shouldn't use rpm command (i.e 'rpm-qa') in the
inside the %pre or %prerun scriptlet as this can cause an RPM - how can
I query the existing version in the rpmbuild/spec file?
What you can do from rpm scriptlets is try figuring out the version by other means, such as testing existence/naming of files of the other package, or executing some test-commands (lot of software has some means of outputting its version via --version or such cli switch)
- Panu -
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