On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 17:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Ven 30 novembre 2012 15:11, Mark Bidewell a écrit : > > > I have been working on packaging software into RPMs for my company. > These > > > RPMs create directories in %post into which dependent RPMs install > > > components. > > > > You need to create those directories in %install and have your package > own > > them in %files, and have dependant rpms depend on your package then > > everything will work fine > > Or for bonus points, the app itself ought to create the directories in > the first place, if they're associated with the app. Packages should > only create directories for stuff that's added as part of the package, > not part of the software per se - say, you're including a convenience > script which is not upstream, or moving the icons around, or something. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Here is the setup we have. 1) An RPM which creates a raw JBoss install 2) An RPM which sets up a specialized server config (based on the default config from 1) with common configuration 3) RPMs containing WARs (and configuration). The reason we encounter the CentOS 5 bug is that the when the RPM in 2 uninstalls, it removes the server config and with it the WARs from 3. Is there a better way? Thanks -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
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