[Rpm-maint] question

[Michael Schroeder]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:17:37AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Ultimately the scriptlets are just bits on the disk... but in case of rpm, 
> they're buried inside checksummed and usually also digitally signed data 
> blobs within a Berkeley DB database, intentionally making it very hard to 
> do such hacks.
>
> So the practical answer is no, its not possible.

That reminds me of my old "updatescripts" idea, i.e. a new scriptlet
type "preupdate/postupdate" that gets called if there's an old version
of the package installed. In that case, the preun/postun scriptlets
of the old package would not be executed.

Is there still interest in that feature?

Cheers,
  Michael.

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