Re: How to pretend an update

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Gordian, Martin wrote:

Soory, I should have sayed that I'm using -Uhv but rpm does not give this information into the %pre %post scripts ($1).

 

So -Uhv does not work it out.

 

The 1st argument to the script is used to detect whether installing or upgrading.

E.g. in %pst $1 >1 if upgrading, $1 == 1 if installing.

Renaming (and Obsolete'ing the old) is not an upgtade case because the package

is being renamed.

What are you trying to do?

73 de Jeff