Re: creating links

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:03:26AM -0700, Joshua M. Miller wrote:
> > What would be the best way to specify creation of symlinks after RPM
> > installation in the SPEC file?
> > I have tried during the %post portion and that fails with the  
> > following
> > error:
> >   error: %post(libldap-2.3.34-centos3) scriptlet failed, exit  
> > status 1
>
> That would be a fine place. You're just doing it wrong somehow. :)

Yes your scriptlet has a error somehow.

But let's backup: If you are creating a symlink to a directory,  
you've got
a whole different class of problem that needs to be solved with a
%pretrans, not a %post, scriptlet.

The %post scriptlet is too late to make the Right Thing Happen in rpm  
if/when
creating a legacy symlink to a directory, doing a directory rename and
creating a symlink needs to be done before file fingerprints are  
calculated.

If you're *NOT* creating a symlink to a directory, then ignore the  
previous
comment(s).

73 de Jeff