Re: RE: %pre script failures in alternate root

["Jeff Johnson" <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On 10/27/06, Aaron Hanson <a hanson f5 com> wrote:
> Hi All-
>
>         I just resolved this; I had no /var/tmp in my chroot area. I
> guess the rc (2) is a standard shell rc (NOENT). Works fine once I added
> /var/tmp.
>
>         Strange that %post scripts worked but %pre did not...

%pre has alway had a "best effort" semantic for hysterical reasons.

But yes, rpm writes scriptlets into %{_tmppath} (i.e. /var/tmp) before
executing.

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that I added a lazy mkdir on /var/tmp the
14th or 15th time I had to diagnose this problem years ago.

What version of rpm are you using?

73 de Jeff