rpmbuild and upgrades
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Wed Aug 24 19:33:01 UTC 2005
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:21 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: rpmbuild and upgrades
>
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:25 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I'm having difficulty with building an RPM file to upgrade.
> The issue
> > comes when I need to add and delete a user. In the spec
> file I have
> > it creating the user in %pre and removing the user in %postun. I'm
> > using useradd and userdel to create and delete the user.
> When I build
> > and install the RPM everything works as expected, same goes when I
> > remove it. But when I do an rpm -U for an upgrade for some reason
> > when all is said and done the user does not exist. Anyone
> know what's going on?
>
> What exactly do you have in the %pre and %postun scripts?
>
> It's actually considered good practise now *not* to remove
> the user on uninstall - there may still be files on the
> system belonging to that user, and if the user is deleted,
> the UID can be reused by a new user, who may "inherit" the
> leftover files.
>
> Paul.
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I hadn't thought of that, if its considered good practice then I'll not
delete the user on an uninstall, problem solved :-D
-MIke
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