[rock-devel] RFC: postinstall scripts

[Clifford Wolf]

Hi,

I can't find the proposal on the list - so here it is (again, or the first
time - I'm not sure...  ;-)

Whenever 'mine' runs, it writes a logfile in

	/var/adm/postinstall/<id>

where <id> is a automatically generated unique id. The logfile has the same
format as the flist files and so contains the package name and filename of
every file touched (removed, added or modified) by mine.

The shell-script 'postinstall' (installed in /usr/sbin) sets some shell
functions and then sources all files in the /etc/postinstall.d directory.

The shell functions defined by 'postinstall' can be used to check if files
matching a pattern are contained in the liggering postinstall logfiles.
That way e.g. glibc can install a postinstall which runs ldconfig whenever
files matching '.*\.so' are removed, added or modified. After all
postinstall scripts are executed, the files in /var/adm/postinstall are
removed.

When the option -a is passed to 'postinstall', the check function always
returns true and so forces all the postinstall scripts to do everything
they can do. This is e.g. usefull when packages are installed manually.
The files in /var/adm/postinstall aren't touched in this mode.

The 'rocket' script would run 'postinstall' automatically after installing
or removing packages. The 'mine' command itself wouldn't run 'postinstall'.

"You can now flame me, I am full of love"  ;-)

yours,
 - clifford

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