3 Mar
2008
3 Mar
'08
8:55 p.m.
Tom Brown wrote:
Hi
Is there an option in the spec that i can say on remove do X - eg move a backup file back into place etc?
eg
%onremove mv foo bar
There are some gotchas (re: removal during an upgrade vs outright removal, aka erasing an RPM) that are good to know about.
This IBM DeveloperWorks article talks about the pre & post install/uninstall script parts of RPMs and covered these gotchas.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rpm3.html?dwzone=linux
-Shawn