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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That is exactly the purpose of the %pre – to verify that all prerequisites are met, so, yes, this is a good idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Rpm-list [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@lists.rpm.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>doc<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 02, 2014 6:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> rpm-list@lists.rpm.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> %pre scripts with a non-zero exit status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I'm being asked to create a %pre scriptlet which if certain configuration conditions are not met will not install the rpm package. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Is this a good idea? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">My understanding of rpm scriptlets is that they should always (except under extreme conditions) exit with a status of 0. Needless to say, these rpms
with the %pre failures would be installed by rpm, yum and zypper. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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