Running a command in background inside spec file

[Murilo Opsfelder Araujo]

I was able to do that using triggerin -- packagename.

Thanks for helping.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM, yersinia<yersinia.spiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Adam Miller<maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Murilo Opsfelder
>> Araujo<mopsfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> how can I run a command in background inside spec file?
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I have to ask because my curiosity is killing me.... what's the use
>> case for that?
> Un use case could be in the %post section, if you want to run a
> postinstall of a (bad) commercial package and you want to put in a
> shell a sigalarm (something like this) for not to wait forever if
> something go wrong. I have done this in the past IIRC. But it is only
> an example, for probably a rare use case.
>
> Cheers
>>
>> -Adam
>>
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