order of processing for rpm -Uhv (?)

["Cress, Andrew R" <andrew r cress intel com>]

rpm version used: rpm-4.2.1-4.2 (with RH EL3).

I have an rpm package that works fine with rpm -e / rpm -i, but rpm -Uhv
shows results in the following order, which seems illogical to me.
%pre    (new ver)
%post   (new ver)
%preun  (old ver)
%postun (old ver)

This obviously causes problems for me because the postun does some
cleanup of files that the post-install conditionally set up.  Can
someone help me understand why rpm -Uhv isn't ordered like this:
%preun  (old ver)
%postun (old ver)
%pre    (new ver)
%post   (new ver)

Maybe there is a later version of rpm that handles this differently, but
I would like to find a way to handle both rpm -i and rpm -U cleanly with
rpm-4.2 and later.

Andy



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