On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miguel Beccari wrote:
> I builded a RPM from scratch of an application of mine.
>
> The SRC rpm works: it builds 2 i586 architecture packages, it has got
> good controls, it check dependecies and so on.
>
> My trouble is this: how to force the user to answer some questions
> before install the package ?
>
> I wrote down theese lines:
>
>
> %pre
>
> echo "Bla bla bla.....";
> echo -n "Answer (yes | no | later)";
> read chiave
> while ( test -z $chiave ); do
> read chiave
> done;
>
>
> that produce a /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19101 as follow:
>
> echo "Bla bla bla.....";
> echo -n "Answer (yes | no | later)";
> read chiave
> while ( test -z $chiave ); do
> read chiave
> done;
>
>
>
> The problem is that $chiave is NEVER != zero.
>
>
> Some one can help me ?
>
Are you saying the script behave differently in the RPM than if you just
run it? I would do something a little more bulletproof, which would force
them to answer one of your choices, unless they ctrl-C out of it:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Bla bla bla.....";
GoodAnswer () {
# do something now
echo "You answered $chiave"
}
GetInput () {
echo -n "Answer (yes | no | later)";
read chiave
while [ -z "$chiave" ]; do
GetInput
done;
}
GetInput
case $chiave in
yes | no | later)
GoodAnswer
;;
*)
GetInput
;;
esac
Of course if they install with rpmdrake or whatever, you need to call up a
terminal window. Others may have even better suggestions.
Stew Benedict
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