On 3 April 2016 at 03:21, doc <drplastic99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A customer is using RedHat Kickstart to install packages on bare metal > machines. Unfortunately, the %pretrans in the first package fails because > /bin/sh hasn't been installed. What I'm being told is that the following > %pretrans scriptlet is not supported by RedHat Kickstart. > > %pretrans > [ -n "$VERBOSE" ] && set -x ; : > > > Am I missing something? If's RHEL7, then using sg like "Requires(pretrans): coreutils bash" should work. (actually anything using rpm-4.9+ would support this) Though rpm should emits such requires automatically (well for the shell, not for the commands you'll actually be using) eg: $ rpm -qpR -v RPMS/x86_64/foobar-1-1.x86_64.rpm interp,posttrans: /bin/sh interp,pretrans: /bin/sh With that, rpmlib should order packages installation such as bash is installed prior to this package. (unless there's a dependency cycle, in which case rpm will randomly break a dep when ordering packages) Else you cannot guaranty that bash will be installed first. But here, I don't see that's the issue. Actually I don't see the point in this %pretrans: - is VERBOSE set in the KS ? Debugging should be done by packager, not in KS... - set -x will ony be valid for the %pretrans, not for other scriptlets (and not for other packages) Basically, each scriptlet runs its own interpreter (either /bin/sh, perl, python, lua, ... whatever you choose) What's the purpose here? to see what happen with %pretrans? Debugging should be done by packager, not in KS... So: - What version of RHEL is used? - What's the actual failure? - What's the actual error message? - Is that the whole %pretrans ? _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
