Re: creating links

["Joshua M. Miller" <joshua itsecureadmin com>]

Ok, so here is what I'm doing:

%post -n %{libname} -p /sbin/ldconfig
/bin/ln -s /usr/lib/liblber-2.3.so.0.2.22 /usr/lib/liblber.so.2
/bin/ln -s /usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0.2.22 /usr/lib/libldap.so.2

Though obvious, I can't help but state my noob status with building RPMs.

TIA,
--
Joshua M. Miller - RHCE,VCP


Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 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
>
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