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

["Adam Crews" <Adam Crews procket com>]

ahh...
%triggerpostun is exactly what I needed.

in my spec file I added:
%triggerpostun -- LPRng
/sbin/chkconfig --add lpd

Thanks!

-Adam

 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: Matthias Saou [mailto:matthias@rpmforge.net] 
 |  Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:56 AM
 |  To: rpm-list@redhat.com
 |  Subject: Re: %post items un-done by an obsoleted package's %postun
 |  
 |  
 |  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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