[CentOS] rpm - spec - on remove

Shawn O'Shea shawn at ll.mit.edu
Mon Mar 3 19:55:21 UTC 2008


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



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