Supported way to require that a service be stopped prior to installing an .rpm package?

[Jeff]

Hello,

My team is building and maintaining a fairly complex software stack that is being packaged
via rpm.  As part of the requirements, the service provided by the .rpm file must be
stopped prior to installation / update of the package.  

Is there any supported / recommended way to do this?  Currently the team uses the %pre
section to check if the service is running and fail if so, but this seems a bit ugly.

[Laura Abbott]

On 10/25/2016 04:23 PM, jhally(a)gmail.com wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  My team is building and maintaining a fairly complex software stack that is being
> packaged via rpm.  As part of the requirements, the service provided by the .rpm file must
> be stopped prior to installation / update of the package.
>
>  Is there any supported / recommended way to do this?  Currently the team uses the %pre
> section to check if the service is running and fail if so, but this seems a bit ugly.
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This question is better suited for the fedora-devel list.

Thanks,
Laura

[Jeff]

Thanks!  Moved this topic to devel.

Jeff

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 10/25/2016 04:23 PM, jhally(a)gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > My team is building and maintaining a fairly complex software stack that
> > is being packaged via rpm.  As part of the requirements, the service
> > provided by the .rpm file must be stopped prior to installation / update of
> > the package.
> >
> > Is there any supported / recommended way to do this?  Currently the team
> > uses the %pre section to check if the service is running and fail if so,
> > but this seems a bit ugly.
> > _______________________________________________
> > kernel mailing list -- kernel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> >
> >
>  This question is better suited for the fedora-devel list.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Laura
>