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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <poky@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpm: Move postinsts to /var
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:55:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F047682.5030204@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325643446.24646.11.camel@lenny>

On 1/3/12 8:17 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:54 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
>> On 01/03/2012 10:48 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
>>> My OS has read-only bind mounts over most directories (including
>>> /etc), with the exception of /var.  Since these scripts need to
>>> be run once and then deleted, it's better for me if these are in
>>> /var, and won't hurt anyone else for them to be there.
>>>
>>> You fixed this for RPM, does it exist for deb and ipkg also?
>
>  From a glance, no:
>
> rootfs_deb.bbclass
> 	# Attempt to run postinsts
> 	# Mark packages with postinst failures as unpacked
> 	for i in ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst; do
> 		if [ -f $i ]&&  ! sh $i configure; then
> 			_flag unpacked `basename $i .postinst`
> 		fi
> 	done
>
> rootfs_ipk.bbclass:
> 	for i in ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${opkglibdir}/info/*.postinst; do
> 		if [ -f $i ]&&  ! sh $i configure; then
> 		     	runtime_script_required=1
> 			opkg-cl ${IPKG_ARGS} flag unpacked `basename $i .postinst`
> 		fi
> 	done

Based on the above, I would then suggest you use /var/lib/rpm/info/*.postinst

That way the files are contained within the rpm directory of database and 
associated files.  Otherwise, I agree, this is a bug in the current 
implementation.  It shouldn't be using etc for things that can change.

--Mark

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-03 18:48 [PATCH] rpm: Move postinsts to /var Colin Walters
2012-01-04  0:54 ` [poky] " Saul Wold
2012-01-04  0:54   ` Saul Wold
2012-01-04  2:17   ` Colin Walters
2012-01-04 15:55     ` Mark Hatle [this message]

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