Re: Problem with %post and upgrade

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters omnilinux com>]

Thanks! That fixed it- all works now :)

> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:51:32AM +0200, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > I build mod_php rpm's and am having a problem with %post and %postun
> > script.
> >
>
> Yup, rpm installs before removing so your scriptlets are not running
> in the order that you expect.
>
> Your %preun is undoing what the %post has done. You need to distinguish
> a pure remove pathway (i.e. rpm -e ...) from an upgrade pathway by testing
> argv[1] (argv[1] contains the number of instances of the package that
> will be located on the system after the script is run).
>
> Basically that means you need to do
>
> %preun
>    if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
> 	<your sed here>
>    fi

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