Yum Package Remove Order

[Mark Bidewell]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 17:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le Ven 30 novembre 2012 15:11, Mark Bidewell a écrit :
> > > I have been working on packaging software into RPMs for my company.
>  These
> > > RPMs create directories in %post into which dependent RPMs install
> > > components.
> >
> > You need to create those directories in %install and have your package
> own
> > them in %files, and have dependant rpms depend on your package then
> > everything will work fine
>
> Or for bonus points, the app itself ought to create the directories in
> the first place, if they're associated with the app. Packages should
> only create directories for stuff that's added as part of the package,
> not part of the software per se - say, you're including a convenience
> script which is not upstream, or moving the icons around, or something.
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Here is the setup we have.
1) An RPM which creates a raw JBoss install
2) An RPM which sets up a specialized server config (based on the default
config from 1) with common configuration
3) RPMs containing WARs (and configuration).

The reason we encounter the CentOS 5 bug is that the when the RPM in 2
uninstalls, it removes the server config and with it the WARs from 3.  Is
there a better way?

Thanks

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