creating .rpm files for special installations

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 07/22/2011 02:24 PM, g wrote:
> <>
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>> not recalling all abilities of rpm, my question is, can rpm/yum append to
>> existing files?
>
> to Richard Shaw and Todd Zullinger,
>
> i thank you for your replies.
>
> as yet, i have not been to rpm.org to refresh on operations of rpm and
> appending to files. i will do so in near future.
>
> right now, i am refreshing on iptables so i can get back to another thread.
>
> i did google rpm.org for 'scriptlet' and had 864 hits. none of which did
> i take time to go thru. obviously, or i would still be reading. ;)

Sorry, I wasn't intentionally obtuse :)

A scriptlet is nothing more than a bash script within the spec file[1]
of an RPM package. For your purposes I think the appropriate place to
do what you're trying to do is in the "%post" section. This is
executed after package install.

Also, if you want to undo whatever you do in the %post script then you
would put that "scriptlet" in %postun.

Richard

[1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-scripts.html