rpm installation tests / script tests

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Jul 10 11:26:41 UTC 2007


Alain PORTAL wrote:


> This is the same error for the 3 packages
> ERROR: Output running post uninstall script for package
> piklab-0:0.14.2-2.fc7.i386
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.TpqGGv: line 2: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache: No such
> file or directory
> 
> but
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets?action=show&redirect=ScriptletSnippets#head-7103f6c38d1b5735e8477bdd569ad73ea2c49bda
> said "Note that no dependencies should be added for this."
> 
> So, what we have to do?

Hrm, looks like an oversight in the guidelines... should probably wrap the
call in something like:
1.  if [ -x /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache ]; then ...
or 
2. redirect output (using something like >& /dev/null 
(I use the latter mostly).

-- Rex




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