Without being overly simplistic, if you've talking about using rpm -ivh to install something, you are limited to using:
1) Clever 'Requires' directives (used effectively these should be almost all you need)
2) Clever use of the %pre directive.
Getting RPM to spit out custom messages could happen in the %pre script. Depending on what you're trying to do though, the above might not give you the level of flexibility that you're needing :)
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On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 04:46, Kamal Hussain wrote:
Hi,
Does RPM support some kind of "checkinstall" script? Basically, the