On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 17:18 -0400, James Antill wrote:
On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 17:03 -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com> writes:
>
> > == Detailed Description ==
> >
> > Currently we know how to make an installable OS with packages
> > that
> > doesn't require the use of scriptlets, indeed rpm-ostree and
> > others
> > have already done this on a significantly bigger scale. So we
> > plan
> > to
> > remove direct scriptlets from most (if not all) of the packages
> > in
> > the
> > main fedora container image for Fedora 31. This means all four
> > of:
> > %pre/%post/%preun/%postun. After this change it'd be good to have
> > some
> > kind of temporary exception to be granted before those packages
> > could
> > add a scriptlet back (post F31 work).
>
> Do I understand correctly that triggers aren't affected here?
Yes.
> > Almost all of the hard work is already done, as rpm can react to
> > files
> > being dropped in specified places with known actions (Eg. In this
> > way
> > systemd components can create users or files). There are a few
> > minor
> > changes needed to packages to move from the old way of doing
> > things
> > (Eg. calling adduser) to doing the new thing. Note that while a
> > program will still be run at installation time, those programs
> > will
> > be
> > few and easily audited (as against the 666 slightly different
> > ways
> > of
> > adding a user we currently have).
>
> Is there a document describing common things that are done with
> scriptlets and the "proper", non-scriptlet way to do them? (If
> not,
> could one be made?)
I don't believe there is a single document atm. ... I could look at
putting one somewhere, although it's a bit like lumping random things
together because we happen to be doing them at the same time.
OK, let's talk about concrete package: crypto-policies needs to run
update-crypto-policies --no-check >/dev/null
It currently does it in %post.
It could do it in %posttrans - that would be one option. What are the
other options?
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