Creating upgradable rpm packages (-Uvh)
Posted on Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:23 by Hubertus A. Haniel
When creating rpm packages one should bear in mind that during a package upgrade the pre and post install and uninstall scripts are also run and it can happen that modifications are executed that you may not want to execute during the upgrade eg removal of files in a postuninstall which will actually still be needed after the upgrade. I belive the postuninstall is actually being run after the package has been upgraded. To get around this one should use the following framework:
%pre
if [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during initial installation.
elif [ "$1" = "2" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during upgrade.
fi
%post
if [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during initial installation.
elif [ "$1" = "2" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during upgrade.
fi
%preun
if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during removal of the package.
elif [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during upgrade.
fi
%postun
if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during removal of the package.
elif [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
Do stuff that should happen during upgrade.
fi
Edited on: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 11:34
Posted in HowTo (RSS), Packaging (RPM) (RSS), System - Linux (RSS)
