Mike McGrath kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 24. elokuuta 2005 19:25): > 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? In an upgrade, the new package is installed first and %pre is executed. Then the old package gets removed and %postun is executed. You end up with the user deleted. You should check the numercal argument given to %pre and %postun scripts to distinguish between install/delete and upgrade. See: http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html#s1-rpm-spec-file -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
