[SLE] Re: rpm package building

23 May 2000

      On Mon, 22 May 2000, Stefan Troeger wrote:

st> Hi,
st> 
st> On Sun, May 21 2000 at 22:03 -0700, S.Toms wrote:
st> 
st> >   Ok, I need some of you package building gurus, I'm building an
st> > apsfilter-5.4.2 package, based on the actual apsfilter not the one one
st> > created by SuSE. Anyway, during the configuration of apsfilter itself
st> > using the SETUP script, the man pages are installed. So what I'm trying to
st> > do is create a postuninstall script that will check for the variations of
st> > the manpages that can be installed and have it uninstall them if they
st> > exist. The script is the easy part, but how would I use it as a
st> > postuninstall script as I see no way to add it to the package without
st> > adding it to the %files section itself, but that just deletes the file
st> > during an uninstall which nolonger makes the file available to be run as a
st> > postuninstall.
st> >   Any ideas?
st> 
st> I'm no expert at this, but what about including the contents of
st> the script in the spec file's %postun section (without the
st> #!/bin/sh line)? That way you don't have a separate script.
st> 

  That was my first attempt, it errored out bigtime like it didn't
understand what I was doing. I get the following results  with and without
the !/bin/sh statement.

         Removing package aps-5.4.2-2
        execution of script failed

<heres the script>
#!/bin/sh

for MANDIR in /usr/man \
              /usr/share/man \
              /usr/local/man \
              /usr/local/share/man ; do
   for FILE in apsfilter.1 \
               apsfilterrc.5 \
               filtersetup.8 ; do
      test -f $MANDIR/man1/$FILE.gz && rm -f $MANDIR/man1/$FILE.gz
      test -f $MANDIR/man5/$FILE.gz && rm -f $MANDIR/man5/$FILE.gz
      test -f $MANDIR/man8/$FILE.gz && rm -f $MANDIR/man8/$FILE.gz
   done
done

works fine by itself, in there it doesn't.

st> Ciao,
st> 	Stefan
st> 
st> 

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[SLE] Re: rpm package building

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