Re: Use of rpm --root to build a cross root filesystem: pre/post/preun/postun scripts problem

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:50:03PM +0100, Patrick Monnerat wrote:

> I use "rpm --root ..." to build a cross root filesystem. Some of the
> packages I install start, restart or stop a daemon from their
> install/erase scripts. [...]

Packages doing that are wrong, IMHO.  Packages may do a "condrestart"
(restarting them *only* if they are already running), but never start
(or stop) a service.  In fact, the system install itself is done in
another root.

So, IMHO packages should never *need* to check this, they just should
work fine in a chroot environment or they should be fixed.

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