Re: Insert a %post into existing rpm?

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

You could use rpmrebuild
http://rpmrebuild.sourceforge.net/

Valery.

--- Daniel Grimwood <reaper ivec org> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a binary commercial rpm (Intel Compiler) that
> I would like to put 
> a %post script into.
> 
> The reason is that the rpm currently comes with an
> install script that 
> installs the (relocatable) rpm and then does some
> trivial modifications to 
> some of the files that got installed.  (It
> effectively replaces some tokens 
> with RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX in a few files.).  I'd like
> to stick those changes 
> straight into a %post script and repackage the rpm
> to simplify new installs 
> and upgrades.
> 
> Is this possible/easy to do with rpm?  If not then I
> could try converting to 
> deb with alien, putting the post script in and
> converting back to rpm, but I 
> don't know if that would wreck RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX,
> plus it's not elegant.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel.
> 
> 
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