On 7/26/06, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 12:01 -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > Hi, > > Say I want to run a command before installing an RPM. If the command > fails, the RPM should not install. If I was installing multiple RPMs > at the same time and that command inside that RPM failed, none of the > RPMs would install. > > Is that an appropriate use of the %preinstall (or is is %pre) section? > Is it not something you can express as a dependency - eg Requires: /path/to/some/command
That would be great if that were possible... I'll try it.