Re: [OE-core] trivial(?) question about post-installation scripts

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 05:52 -0400, rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
>   still working my way through the YP docs and, in dev manual,
> 3.3.19,
> "Post-Installation Scripts", one reads the final note:
> 
> "Equivalent support for pre-install, pre-uninstall, and post-
> uninstall
> scripts exist by way of pkg_preinst, pkg_prerm, and pkg_postrm,
> respectively. These scrips work in exactly the same way as does
> pkg_postinst with the exception that they run at different times.
> Also, because of when they run, they are not applicable to being run
> at image creation time like pkg_postinst."
> 
>   i'm confused ... why would a pkg_preinst script not be applicable
> to
> being run at image creation time? or am i misreading that?
> 
>   i'll probably have more questions about these scripts as i dig
> further into them.

I think however wrote it misunderstood. prerm and postrm are unlikely
to run at image install time (but can if packages are removed). preinst
will run.

Cheers,

Richard