Re: How to make RPM installation fail if post script fails ?

[Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi acm org>]

Not to sound unhelpful, but you should also consider whether you
*really* *really* need to do this. At Ximian, we have a rule that a post
script can *never* fail, and we arrange things accordingly.  Granted, it
is yet another constraint to live with, but so far it has served us
well.

best -f

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 09:20 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>          
>         
>         I don't know if this is possible, but my RPM consists of
>         several files that are installed (declared in %files of my
>         rpm.spec file), and also several steps to be done in post
>         section, after these files are copied to disk. It is necessary
>         for this rpm that it is not considered as installed if one of
>         the steps I'm doing in the post section of the spec file is
>         failing, so I've returned by exiting with non-zero value
>         (hoping this would stop the installation procedure), but this
>         does not help. Strangely enough, when un-installing (with rpm
>         –e command), if some error occurs in my preun script, then the
>         rpm is not uninstalled….
>         
>          
>         
>         Is there some directive or special value to return for making
>         the installation fails after installing the rpm files ? Or am
>         I considering this the wrong way ?
>         
>         
> 
> See my article:
> 
>    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
> 
> Your looking for the autorollback feature of rpm, or a flavor of it
> that does not exist which is a dead stop on failure.  Dead stop is
> easy but where I work  we never found dead stop to be nearly as
> usefull as try to automatically roll things back.
> 
> Cheers...james
> 
> 
> 
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