%pre script failures in alternate root

["Aaron Hanson" <a hanson f5 com>]

Hi All -

	I'm installing a bunch of packages to an alternate root (rpm
--root option). _All_ my packages with %pre scripts fail like this:

error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
tcpdump-3.7.2-0.0.0.5.0 

	All the %post scripts run fine. 'rpm -vv' doesn't show any
additional info; it seems that the %pre scripts do not even get started.
Anybody know of any strange interaction between '--root' and %pre
scripts?

-Aaron


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpm-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:rpm-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Fulko Hew sita aero
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 1:49 PM
> To: RPM Package Manager
> Subject: Re: How to handle erasing an RPM that contains a 
> mandatory file
> 
> 
> 
> rpm-list-bounces redhat com wrote on 10/27/2006 02:24:10 PM:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:15:19PM -0400, Michael Jennings wrote:
> > > On Friday, 27 October 2006, at 20:12:42 (+0200), Jos Vos wrote:
> > >
> > > > > According to the man page, --force is the same as 
> --oldpackage 
> > > > > (I hope it really is).  [...]
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK it is *not*.
> > >
> > > mej talon ~/info >> rpm --help | grep force
> > >   --force                          short hand for --replacepkgs --
> > replacefiles
> >
> > Which proves his point. It isn't the same as --oldpackage, it also 
> > includes --replacepkgs and --replacefiles.
> >
> > If the ggp wants that or not, I can't say.
> 
> 
> But like I originally said, the man page says:
> 
> --force
>   same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage
> 
> Then again the corrollary of --oldpackage is the same as ...
> is not neccessarily true either.
> 
> so I would equally not trust anything grep'ed from within the 
> help info in the binary.  Only the real code knows for sure.
> 
> Let me put on my face shield and bomb disposal suit, and try 
> a few tests.
> :-)
> 
> 
> 
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