RE: Questions on RPM

[Hiren Patel <patelhn telkom co za>]

rpm installations should not be user interactive.
have the user/admin configure the app once its installed, not during the
rpm installation.

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:41 +0800, Rayapudi Sandeep-mgb376 wrote:
> I had another issue with RPM.
> 
> - I need to read some variables from user (with shell command 'read')
> and based on that, I will execute some other shell scripts (creating a
> database). But when execution comes to 'read' in spec file, it says,
> "/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.35565: line 4: [: =: unary operator expected". Please
> suggest me. Please find shell scripts and spec file here. 
> 
> ****spec file*****
> %pre
> echo "In pre install script"
> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/rpmTest-%{version}
> read a
> if [ $a = "y" ]
> then
>         sh createDb.sh /home/motorola/CallerId-1.1/
> Fi
> 
> ***** shell script *****
>                 echo -n "Database server IP: "
>                 read dbIp
>                 echo -n "Database name to be created: "
>                 read dbName
>                 echo -n "Database user name: "
>                 read dbUserName
>                 echo -n "Database password: "
>                 read dbPwd
>                 mkdir tempDir
>                 cp tempOdbc.ini ./tempDir/tempOdbc.ini
>                 cd tempDir
>                 sed -e "s/DBIP/$dbIp/g" -e "s/DBNAME/$dbName/g" -e
> "s/USR/$dbUserName/g" -e "s/PSSWD/$dbPwd/g" tempOdbc.ini >
> tempOdbcTemp.ini
>                 ./searchReplace LOC $1/tools/odbcLibraries/libmyodbc3.so
>                 mv tempOdbcTemp.ini ../
>                 rm -f searchReplace
>                 cd ..
>                 rmdir tempDir
>                 export ODBCINI=$PWD/tempOdbcTemp.ini
>                 echo "drop database $dbName" | isql -v temp $dbUserName
> $dbPwd -w > /dev/null
>                 echo "CREATE DATABASE $dbName" | isql -v temp
> $dbUserName $dbPwd -w > /dev/null
> 
> ######## here I am executing ".sql" file ############
> 
>                 cat ldb.sql | isql -v ldb $dbUserName $dbPwd -w
>                 #cat triggers.sql | isql -v ldb $dbUserName $dbPwd -w
>                 rm -f $PWD/tempOdbcTemp.ini
>                 exit
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your support
> 
> Thnx,
> -Sandeep
> 
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Hiren Patel

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