On 20 Jun 2003 10:25:56 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (François Pons) wrote: > "R.I.P. Deaddog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2003-06-17(Tue) 15:48:40 +0200, Marcel Pol wrote: > > > It still leaves me with my question about update-alternatives. > > > > Not confirmed, but my bet is: since /usr/bin/abiword is present in 1.0.4 > > but not 1.0.6 in %%files, rpm removes the files AFTER update-alternatives > > is run. That is, after running postin script in new package, it goes ahead > > to remove all non-existant (which it thinks so) files in the old package. > > > > Is it so, fpons? > > The bug concerns packages removed, not files removed. > > This changes nothing for abiword as /usr/bin/abiword is created by > update-alternatives by %post, it does not need to be present in %files. > > Look at /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/triggers for documentation about which > scriptlet section are executed first, you will see that if abiword-1.0.4 has > /usr/bin/abiword in %files, /usr/bin/abiword is removed after %post is > executed, which is probably bad, a %trigger should be used so.
Thank you both for pointing out the problem. I'll see what to do with it. -- Marcel Pol
