[Rpm-maint] upgrade process

[Michael Schroeder]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:49:21PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Package smartsuite was renamed to smartmontools, but the
> script /etc/init.d/smartd remains without change. Start on installation,
> restart (once) on update, stop on removal.
> 
> It's easy top do with package-name based scripts.

That's a straightforward use case for
%postinstall/%postupdate/%preuninstall

> 2)
> [...]
> %postnew /usr/bin/gst-register
> /usr/bin/gst-register
> 
> %postup /usr/bin/gst-register
> /usr/bin/gst-register
> 
> %postrm /usr/bin/gst-register
> rm -r /var/cache/gstreamer-0.8

No no, you shouldn't do that with scriptlets at all, but with
a virtual package trigger.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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