[Fedora-packaging] Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package.

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 01/22/2012 02:51 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 09:15:49AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 01/21/2012 01:06 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> When updating a package I came across this "Error in PREUN scriptlet
>>> in rpm package".
>>>
>>> Now further inspection revealed that there was a misplaced semicolon
>>> in %preun section of the relevant spec file.
>>>
>>> Easily fixable but what is the proper procedure to fix this via update
>>> without having the user having to go to a terminal and run rpm -e
>>> --noscripts $oldpackage to remove the old package?
>> Given the lack of response I assume that there is no proper way to
>> handle this other than forcing users of the particular component to
>> manually remove the relevant package after that update has been pushed.
> You might be able to use a trigger or posttrans to fix it.

Thanks I will try that

JBG