[CentOS] porting spec files

[Alice Wonder]

On 10/07/2016 01:44 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
> On 06/10/16 22:50, Alice Wonder wrote:
>> An rpm intended for a bleeding edge Fedora builds perfectly for me when
>> I comment two macros apparently not in CentOS 7 -
>>
>> %transfiletriggerin
>>
>> and
>>
>> %transfiletriggerun
>>
>> Looks like they operate similar to %post and %postun but are different.
>>
>> Is a simple way to do what they do in CentOS 7 or do I have to change
>> the packaging logic to build in CentOS 7 and have things work properly?
>>
>
> These are file triggers, they trigger scripts to run when specific files
> are added or removed from the system when packages are (un)installed.
> See here:
>
> http://www.rpm.org/wiki/FileTriggers
>
>
> Whilst RHEL's version of RPM doesn't support file triggers, it does
> support package triggers, so maybe you could devise a workaround with
> those:
>
> http://rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/triggers.html
>
>

Okay it looks like what is happening is the triggers are used when 
plugins are installed, and the CentOS 7 way is to run those triggers in 
the post/pre scriptlets of the packages that have the plugins.

Probably better to have the file trigger conceptually, less chance for 
scriptlet bugs, but CentOS 8 will come soon enough I suppose ;)

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