Re: files required for installation post processing

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein cse ogi edu>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Howard G Page wrote:

> Any non-ugly way to include files in an rpm that can be used during
> post processing (i.e. in the %post script) and can be deleted when
> finished?

I've never attempted this sort of thing, so this is shooting from the
hip, but it seems to me you could do something like

  %files
  %config(missingok) /var/local/%{name}/script.sh
  %config(missingok) /var/local/%{name}/data.txt

  %post
  cd /var/local/%{name}
  /bin/sh script.sh < data.txt
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    /bin/rm -f script.sh data.txt
    cd ..
    /bin/rmdir %{name}
  fi

It's hacky, to be sure, but it seems to my (oft feeble) mind that it'd
work as expected.

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@cse.ogi.edu>