On 11/11/2010 13:47, Gabriel Tabares wrote: > Hi all, > > We currently have an issue with multiple versions of a custom package > being installed. The RPM contains a liquibase script (a Java-based DB > change management tool) and a %post script to run liquibase. > > We are installing with scripts that run "yum update liquibase-script". > > If the %post script runs correctly, it returns 0 and the application > gets installed correctly but, if the %post script fails, it returns -1 > and the application does get installed, but the old one does not get > unistalled, so if I run "rpm -qa | grep liquibase-script" I get a list > of all the versions that have been installed. > > I know that the files have been installed correctly, as the RPM contents > have the same name but different content and I have checked it. > > Why is this happening? > > I thought that %post scripts failing do not prevent the application to > installing and that RPM installation is atomic, so installing one > package will remove the previous verison. Is there any way to prevent > this issue? > > We're using CentOS 5.4 on x86_64 > Any suggestion, guys? Thanks Gabriel