[389-devel] Please review: auto upgrade during rpm posttrans

[Nathan Kinder]

On 10/06/2009 08:25 AM, Nathan Kinder wrote:
> On 10/05/2009 07:37 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> It is a problem that upgrade is not run automatically during rpm 
>> installation.  It causes problems for other packages that depend on 
>> 389.  This fix allows rpm to run the upgrade script.  Some notes:
>> * had to write scriptlets in lua to allow data to be passed among 
>> different phases - %posttrans does not know if it is being run as a 
>> fresh install or an upgrade, so we have to get that information from 
>> %post to pass to %posttrans
>> * upgrade must be run in posttrans - in %post, the old package that 
>> is being upgraded will still be around - this includes the old schema 
>> in the schema dir - the update script assumes the contents of the 
>> schema dir are correct and current - so we have to wait until 
>> %posttrans when the schema dir will contain only the new schema
>> * the upgrade script can only run non-interactively if the servers 
>> are all shutdown first - so we have to shutdown the servers, run the 
>> upgrade, then start the servers back up - however, if the user did 
>> not want certain servers to be running, we first get a list of the 
>> running servers, and only start those back up after the upgrade
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>    
> I believe you need to add something like the following since you added 
> the new dirsrv-snmp init script to the package:
>
> %post
> os.execute('/sbin/chkconfig --add %{pkgname}')
Sorry, I meant the following for the above line:

os.execute('/sbin/chkconfig --add %{pkgname}-snmp')

>
> %postun
> /sbin/service %{pkgname}-snmp stop >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> /sbin/chkconfig --del %{pkgname}-snmp
>
> Other than that, it looks good.
>> --
>> 389-devel mailing list
>> 389-devel at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-devel
>>    
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> 389-devel mailing list
> 389-devel at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-devel
>    

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-devel/attachments/20091006/c8d1ba5e/attachment.htm>