Re: How to take user input while in preinstall directive while installing RPM

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:04:55PM +0530, Kumar, Manish wrote:
> I am novice in RPM . I am writing a spec file in which before
> installation in the %pre section I want to call a script this script
> should take user input like some configuration parameters to install the
> software.
>  

This is a very frequently asked newbie question, and the answer is: don't do
that. RPM is not meant to be interactive. What would a GUI tool like yumex
or anaconda do when your script started asking questions mid-transaction?

 If you need configuration parameters, to install, make a wrapper around the
RPM. But even better, make the software configure itself on first run.

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