Re: %post items un-done by an obsoleted package's %postun

[Matthias Saou <matthias rpmforge net>]

Once upon a time, Adam wrote :

> After my package is installed successfully, the lprng, printconf, ect
> are un-installed.  During this un-install the %postun for lprng runs a
> chkconfig --del lpr, and un-does what my %post did.
> 
> How can I prevent this from happening without having to uninstall the
> lprng package before installing mine?

You could call your init script differently, that should be the easiest.
Maybe with the "trigger" things (that I've never played with), you could
get something closer to what you want, have a look at Maximum RPM for that.

Matthias

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