[Rpm-maint] discussion on problems of RPM in real life packaging

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> %pretans plays all sorts of hell with chroot installs. We tend to
>> discourage them as much as possible.
>
> Why they are different than %post in chroot?

b/c %post happens AFTER the chroot exists. %pretrans would happen before 
it exists.

-sv