Verification-time script in rpm
Posted on Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 18:14 by Hubertus A. Haniel
This could be useful - found this in the rpm documentation while I was searching for something else so I thought I put it here for later :)
The %verifyscript executes whenever the installed package is verified by RPM's verification command. The contents of this script is entirely up to the package builder, but in general the script should do whatever is necessary to verify the package's proper installation. Since RPM automatically verifies the existence of a package's files, along with other file attributes, the %verifyscript should concentrate on different aspects of the package's installation. For example, the script may ensure that certain configuration files contain the proper information for the package being verified:
for n in ash bsh; do
echo -n "Looking for $n in /etc/shells... "
if ! grep "^/bin/${n}\$" /etc/shells > /dev/null; then
echo "missing"
echo "${n} missing from /etc/shells" >&2
else
echo "found"
fi
done
In this script, the config file /etc/shells, is checked to ensure that it has entries for the shells provided by this package.
It is worth noting that the script sends informational and error messages to stdout, and error messages only to stderr. Normally RPM will only display error output from a verification script; the output sent to stdout is only displayed when the verification is run in verbose mode.
Edited on: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 18:39Posted in HowTo (RSS), Packaging (RPM) (RSS), System - Linux (RSS)
