Re: [Fedora-packaging] Error in the systemd scriptlet snippets

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 08/30/2013 01:08 PM, Aurélien Bompard wrote:
>  Hi packagers,
>
>  I just realized there's a mistake in the ScriptletsSnippets page about
>  the new systemd macros:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Macroized_scri...
>
>  The page asks to add "Requires: systemd", but the macros are actually
>  expanded at build time and not at run time, thus it should simply be a
>  single "BuildRequires: systemd" line.
>
>  Example of the scriptlets when built without systemd:
>
>  # rpm -q --scripts mailman3
>  preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  [...]
>  postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  %systemd_post mailman3.service
>  preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  %systemd_preun mailman3.service
>  postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  %systemd_postun_with_restart mailman3.service
>
>  And I install time I get:
>
>  /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.FtLPUV: line 1: fg: no job control
>  warning: %post(mailman3-3.0.0-0.6.bzr7218.fc19.noarch) scriptlet failed,
>  exit status 1
>  Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package
>  mailman3-3.0.0-0.6.bzr7218.fc19.noarch
>
>  obviously because the "%" sign is interpreted as the job control command.
>  When built with systemd, the scriptlets look correct:
>
>  $ rpm -qp --scripts mailman3-3.0.0-0.6.bzr7220.fc19.noarch.rpm
>  preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  [...]
>  postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then
>           # Initial installation
>           /usr/bin/systemctl preset mailman3.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>  fi
>  preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  [...] (expanded too)
>  postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>  [...] (expanded too)
>
>  This is on F19. Can you confirm that the wiki page should be fixed?
>  Thanks.
>
>  Aurélien
>  
I asked systemd maintainers and the correct solution is BuildRequire 
systemd all the time you are using their macros. They should probably go 
through packages and verify it's fixed everywhere, because it changed 
few months ago.

I answered to myself in this ticket [1]. Sadly no-one replied to me and 
didn't fix it in guidelines.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/318

Marcela