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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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This should ensure things are +</I>>>>><i> installed properly (I think - although not sure how this will affect the +</I>>>>><i> initial transaction split...) +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Any other/better thoughts? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> rewrite glibc scriptlets in lua instead of sh +</I>>><i> See <A HREF="http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/RpmLua">http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/RpmLua</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The glibc scriptlets don't seem to really *need* dash-static anyway... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">root at jimmy</A> ~]# rpm -q --scripts glibc| grep dash +</I>><i> preinstall scriptlet (using /usr/bin/dash.static): +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So it's only the preinst script. That should be trivial to rewrite in lua. +</I> +No as %post is indeed run wih glibc-post-wrapper as interpreter... +But glibc-post-wrapper uses ash.static after running ldconfig... +So %post should be done in lua too, and thus glibc-post-wrapper should +be run from within lua instead of being the %post script interpreter + +><i> OK, so that does avoid the loop, but....... should we still try to work +</I>><i> out a nice way to get "setup" (and thus the default groups that packages +</I>><i> may use) installed early or is it just a housekeeping job to make sure +</I>><i> packages Require(pre) setup package if they want to use the users +</I>><i> defined in it? +</I> +I would say the later but it's obvious it's prone to error, so maybe making it +be installed early with filesystem & glibc (thus having one bigger transaction +at first). +Which is not appealing but can be an acceptable solution. +On the other hand, "Anything not packaged as root.root should requires setup" +is a bit obviouslyoverkill... + +><i> Perhaps we could add some kind of rpmfilter thingy to automatically add +</I>><i> this Require(pre)? Is that possible? +</I> +I suppose it's supposed to do in rpm-setup. +However that will make more requires to process by urpmi and thus +bigger synthesis. + +><i> If so then it might also be +</I>><i> possible to write similar automatic Require(pre,post,etc) to packages +</I>><i> using rpm-helper stuff too... that would be be quire nice and reduce the +</I>><i> packaging burden :) +</I></PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="024046.html">[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] setup package not installed until quite late on... +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="024054.html">[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] setup package not installed until quite late on... +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#24050">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#24050">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#24050">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#24050">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |