Shall sockets are owned by rpm or created/removed by post/preun scriptlet?
Björn Esser
bjoern.esser at gmail.com
Tue May 21 07:51:15 UTC 2013
Hello!
I'm currently work on packaging `courier-authlib` (needed for pkg'ing
and running courier MTA).
In maintainer's `generic-all-purpose-and-all-rpm-dists` spec-file there
is this scriptlet inside %install for creating/providing the needed
socket:
/scriptlet/
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/
./authmksock %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/socket
touch %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/pid.lock
touch %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/pid
chmod 0777 %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/socket
/endscriptlet/
My question about this is:
Can I take this one-by-one in my fedora-rpm or is it better to provide
the same functionality during %post and %preun?
/spec/
%install
...
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/
touch %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/pid.lock
touch %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/pid
%files
...
{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/pid*
...
%post
...
%{_libexecdir}/courier-authlib/authmksock \
%{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/socket
chmod 0777 %{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/socket
%preun
...
rm -f %{_localstatedir}/spool/authdaemon/socket
/endspec/
Cheers,
Björn
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