[Distutils] Fwd: Re: distutils bdist_rpm and %postun section of spec file

[Michał Klich]

Dnia piątek 18 września 2009 o 22:00:17 David Malcolm napisał(a):
> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 21:55 +0200, Michał Klich wrote:
> > Dnia czwartek 17 września 2009 o 23:07:17 A. Cavallo napisał(a):
> > > Hi,
> > > as rule of thumb (followed now by all major distros) you should not put
> > > any script in %postun, %postinst etc sections.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Antonio
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I am looking for some advise in creating rpm package using bdist_rpm.
> > > > I have managed to create post_install part using information
> > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321270/how-to-extend-distutils-wi
> > > >th-a -s imple-post-install-script Now i would like to add some code to
> > > > %postun part of spec file to revert changes done by my post_install
> > > > command. Is there a way to add it in setup.py or do i have to
> > > > manually edit spec file?
> > >
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> > It is not mentioned in Fedora guidelines
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Guidelines
> >
> > Ok, how would you handle creating symlink in setup.py? and removing it of
> > course when uninstalling rpm. That is my goal.
> > I managed to create symlink with setup.py but can not find any option for
> > removing, which is i think correct as there is no uninstall option for
> > setup.py.
> 
> Why is the symlink not simply a part of the rpm payload?  That way it
> would be created on installation and removed on removal.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 

Symlink is pointing to x86_64 arch file, i would like to have noarch rpm.
It is pointing to /usr/bin/consolehelper as application needs to be run with 
root rights.
I might be doing something wrong here but this is my first package.


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