Re: Environment variables in RPM installation scripts

[David Leangen <linux leangen net>]

Hi!

The build dir was an example. I guess what I really need is the source.

I want to apply a post-installation patch.

Are you suggesting that I put my patch file with the %files in a  
known location and use it from there?

I don't really want to install the patch file as part of the  
installation... All I want to do is something like:

%post
patch -p0 < my_patch_file


How would you do this?


Thanks for the comments!


On Aug 7, 2006, at 16:35, Jos Vos wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:24:47PM +0900, David Leangen wrote:
>
> > In my spec file, I want to do some scripting in the %post macro.
> > However, nothing is being returned to me for the value of  
> > $RPM_BUILD_DIR
> > (or anything else, for that matter), so I'm not able to locate the  
> > build
> > files. [...]
>
> Why/how should the *build* dir be available at *install* time?
> All files you need at install time should be in the package.
>
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