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

[David Lim <David Lim Sun COM>]

But supposing I want to use --root to be able to install two independent
installations of an RPM? I think that might be a valid use of --root. I.e.
I'm not going to run the installed rpm in a chroot environment, I just
want two independent installations of the same version of the software.

So my question is, is it possible to access the arg to --root
in the %post script of my rpm?

Jos Vos wrote:
> 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.
>
>