Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (120 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:45:51PM +0200, Andre Hübner wrote:
> within rpm installation of package x i try in %pre to find out with rpm -q 
> if package y is already installed.
> Seems that in rpm-3.x rpmdb is locked from the start, same script works 
> with rpm-4.x
> its not a dependency/conflict  etc., all i want is to echo some information 
> if package y is also installed.
> Do i have some alternatives?

Check the existance of a file that you know is in package y.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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