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. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
