Re: Doing a preinstallation check

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 15:40 -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> 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.

If the required binary is installed using rpm then that'll just work

Paul