Re: [Fedora-packaging] user input while installing an RPM

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:35:22 -0700
<MGandra(a)diskeeper.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi
>
>  I have an RPM package which will install and I need to get the
>  Username and Password for root user and write it to a config file. 
Why on earth for? 

>  I can have another script file through which I can get user input
> and
>  install RPM and then write to the config file, but I want to get user
>  input and install rpm from one file.  
You should never ask for input when installing packages. 

Perhaps you could have the application ask for configuration the first
time it's run? 

>  I need one file that I can distribute it and does above things. How
>  to do that? 
I would suggest backing up and looking at your higher level goals and
see if there is some better way to solve them. 

kevin