Howto print message on rpm install?

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 14:15:58 UTC 2006


On 12/26/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:37:18 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> >> If I need to echo a message on rpm  install, would 'echo message...' in
> >> postinstall section be the best way?
> > No. It disturbes the output of tools like Yum. And it is not seen during
> > automated (nightly) updates.
> > Better is to add a clear comment in the %changelog.
>
> +1, and/or a special "README.Fedora" file in %doc

+1 and, eventually, append a line in %description for reminding the
user to check README.Fedora after installation




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