[poky] [PATCH] rpm: Move postinsts to /var

[Mark Hatle]

On 1/3/12 8:17 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:54 -0800, Saul Wold wrote:
>> On 01/03/2012 10:48 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
>>> My OS has read-only bind mounts over most directories (including
>>> /etc), with the exception of /var.  Since these scripts need to
>>> be run once and then deleted, it's better for me if these are in
>>> /var, and won't hurt anyone else for them to be there.
>>>
>>> You fixed this for RPM, does it exist for deb and ipkg also?
>
>  From a glance, no:
>
> rootfs_deb.bbclass
> 	# Attempt to run postinsts
> 	# Mark packages with postinst failures as unpacked
> 	for i in ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst; do
> 		if [ -f $i ]&&  ! sh $i configure; then
> 			_flag unpacked `basename $i .postinst`
> 		fi
> 	done
>
> rootfs_ipk.bbclass:
> 	for i in ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${opkglibdir}/info/*.postinst; do
> 		if [ -f $i ]&&  ! sh $i configure; then
> 		     	runtime_script_required=1
> 			opkg-cl ${IPKG_ARGS} flag unpacked `basename $i .postinst`
> 		fi
> 	done

Based on the above, I would then suggest you use /var/lib/rpm/info/*.postinst

That way the files are contained within the rpm directory of database and 
associated files.  Otherwise, I agree, this is a bug in the current 
implementation.  It shouldn't be using etc for things that can change.

--Mark

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