Re: while i'm at it

[Matthew Boeckman <matthewb saepio com>]

see my other post and count one more for the minority!

when you say it is supposed to 'detect' that it hasn't been configured
how would you do that? I'm imagining someone trying to start httpd, and
it somehow launching into a configuration script ????? I don't think
I've every installed anything via RPM that did what you describe.
Tripwire is the closest, and all it does is 'echo blah, run
twinstall.sh' .... 


Tim Mooney wrote:
> 
> In regard to: while i'm at it, Matthew Boeckman said (at 2:41pm on Oct 30,...:
> 
> >Has anyone ever tried to get an interactive shell script working under
> >RPM? Here's what I'm after:
> 
> RPM has a different philosophy regarding user interaction from other
> package installation & management tools you may have encountered,
> including pkgadd on Solaris.
> 
> With RPM, interactive pre, post, etc. scripts are strictly verboten.
> People generally need to structure their package such that it detects
> if it hasn't been configured when it's first run (i.e. after RPM is out
> of the picture) and then it automatically invokes the configuration tool
> at that point.
> 
> I personally think the "no user interaction" rule is one of the very few
> serious limitations in RPM, but I'm in the minority.
> 
> Tim
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