Delaying Post-scriptlets, ala Debian Apt.

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Sun Oct 22 12:19:14 PDT 2006


On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 12:29 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> Execution of rpm scriptlets is a function of rpm / rpmlib, not apt-rpm.
>> Apt has never supported delaying execution of them and wont, unless rpm
>> itself gains such a feature.
>
> %posttrans?

Oh, I'd forgotten about %posttrans. Sure, it executes after the 
transaction (and since it's run by rpmlib, it works in apt just as well) 
but it's not really the same as delaying (all) scriptlet execution until 
transaction completes.

 	- Panu -



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