Re: Insert a %post into existing rpm?

[Daniel Grimwood <reaper ivec org>]

Hi all,

I used rpmrebuild and it turned out to be very easy; can do it 
non-interactively on one line.
sudo rpmrebuild -p --change-spec-post="cat /home/daniel/post" 
intel-ifort91037-9.1.037-1.i386.rpm

And the contents of /home/daniel/post:
%post
for FILE in $(find $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/ -regex '.*[ei](cc|fort|fc|
cpc)$\|.*cfg$\|.*pcl$\|.*vars[^/]*.c?sh$' 2> /dev/null) ; do
    sed s \<INSTALLDIR\>@$RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX g $FILE > ${FILE}.abs
    mv ${FILE}.abs $FILE
    chmod 755 $FILE
done
<snip other similar for loops>

Seems to work whether installing with the default prefix or overwriting with 
rpm --prefix=/bla.  Thanks Valery!

I submitted a support request to Intel in 2003 about this and got nowhere.  
Hopefully by giving them the working spec file and a blurb about simplifying 
their management I'll get somewhere this time around ;).

Mats the install script does ask some questions up front.  In the Fortran 
installation it gets us to accept a licence agreement before letting us 
override the default installation directory.  The change to the rpm file is 
compatible with that.  The C++ compiler is just as easy as well, but I'm not 
sure about the IDE that goes with the C++ compiler, as I don't use it.

BTW I didn't want to use triggers because I also intend to convert the rpms to 
deb format as we have a mix of Fedora and Debian machines.  Alien converts it 
fine, except it doesn't do anything with RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX.  Something else 
to work on....

Thanks all.
Daniel.


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