On Sun 28. of November 2004 16:38, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > Jakub Bogusz wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:51:31AM +0100, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > > twittner wrote: > > > > Author: twittner Date: Sat Nov 27 17:32:36 2004 > > > > GMT Module: SPECS Tag: HEAD > > > > ---- Log message: > > > > - %preun & %postun should never fail (said saq ?) - added || : > > > First of all - sorry for long delay (I check my e-mail account accidentaly - I don't have persist internet connection - please, be patient with me). I've added indiscriminately ` || :' to almost every command in %(post/pre)un after seening following errors during "mass uninstalation":
$ a=($(rpm -qa openldap\*));sudo rpm -ev --allmatches --nodeps $a ? Stopping OpenLDAP service..........................................[ DONE ] Stopping OpenLDAP Update Replication Daemon service................[ DONE ] Starting OpenLDAP service..........................................[ FAIL ] slapd: error while loading shared libraries: libldap_r-2.2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such fileor directory Starting OpenLDAP Update Replication Daemon service................[ FAIL ] slurpd: error while loading shared libraries: libldap_r-2.2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory error: %preun(openldap-backend-ldbm-2.2.18-2) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 ? ? warning: /etc/openldap/slapd.conf saved as /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.rpmsave Removing user slapd /usr/sbin/userdel: error while loading shared libraries: libldap-2.2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: Nosuch file or directory Removing group slapd /usr/sbin/groupdel: error while loading shared libraries: libldap-2.2.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After this uninstalation: $ rpm -qa openldap\* openldap-backend-ldbm-2.2.18-2 Yes, I know some errors are caused by --nodeps (user/groupdel from pwdutils depends on openldap-libs). > > > %post and %preun should never fail. > > > > I haven't tested it, but doesn't %preun fault prevent > > upgrade/uninstallation? If so, it could be useful sometimes. > > I assume that need of uninstalable packages is rather rare. > Maybe postgresql update would be the only case I know. Personally, I hate situation when I cannot uninstall packages without --noscripts (I've spotted such situation in courier-imap long time ago). > > > > In postun it is no problem. > > > So why do you want to hide errors here ? > > > > > > > +%postun libs > > > > +/sbin/ldconfig || : > > > > > > And this way you cause dependency is not autogwnerated ? > > > > It is, but it's /bin/sh not /sbin/ldconfig dependency then ;) > > exactly Add them maunally if necessary ;). Anyway, thank you Ankry for your fixes and apologize for making chaos. -- Tomasz Wittner _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
