%post and sub packages

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpm-list-bounces at lists.rpm.org 
> [mailto:rpm-list-bounces at lists.rpm.org] On Behalf Of Jos Vos
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 13:28
> To: General discussion about the RPM package manager
> Subject: Re: %post and sub packages
> 
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:18:10PM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> 
> > %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
> > 
> > %post
> > /sbin/ldconfig
> > 
> > %post subpackage
> > /sbin/chkconfig --add %{name}
> > 
> > This does not work:
> > 
> > %post subpackage -p "/sbin/chkconfig --add %{name}"
> 
> Why should this work?  I assume
> 
> %post -p "/sbin/chkconfig --add %{name}"

No this is valid. See attached spec file.

> 
> won't work either, as the -p flag requires an executable 
> program as parameter, which is substantially different from a command.
> For the rest,
> 
> %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
> 
> is just a kind of trick to to not fork a shell to run a 
> script, but to fork /sbin/ldconfig directly instead.

Exactly the purpose needed, assumed one could pass args to exec (man exec -S3)

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