Re: Signaling a file will be edited at post installation

[Eric Backus <ericjb wolfenet com>]

José Romildo Malaquias wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> What is the best way to tell RPM that an installed file will be
> edited by a post install script, therefore it will not verify
> correctly because its contents and timestamps will have been
> changed.
> 
> This situation arises in a relocatable package I am building, where
> there is a script file (which can be relocated) which references another
> file of the package that can be relocated. The installed script file
> uses a special word (@PREFIX@) to indicate the relocation prefix when
> refering to the other file and a post install script just substitutes
> the @PREFIX@ word by the prefix used at installation time. This changes
> some properties of the script file, making later RPM verification
> failure.

I think someone else already told you how to do what you asked.  As an 
alternative, you could consider doing the @PREFIX@ substitution during the 
build process, so that the file which RPM installs really is the correct 
file.

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