> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] 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. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > 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
