Heh, I was ranting about something similar to Jeff on IRC yesterday
with regards to a certain Compaq/HP RPM...

$ rpm -ql hponcfg
/usr/lib/hponcfg
$ rpm -q --scripts hponcfg
preinstall program: /bin/sh
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
        cp /usr/lib/hponcfg /sbin/
        chmod 755 /sbin/hponcfg
postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
        if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then

                rm /sbin/hponcfg -f
                rm /usr/lib/hponcfg -f
        fi

Jason

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:10 PM, devzero2000 <pinto.elia@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is more, but off topic, is that, as anyone know, most commercial rpm
> package (when and if are distributed with rpm ), well, are a little scary in
> quality, at minimum
>
>
> rpm -q --scripts TIVsm-AP
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> #!/bin/bash
> ..
> ...
> for f in libgpfs.so libdmapi.so libha_gs_r.so libct_cu.so
> do
>         if [ -f /usr/lib/$f ]
>         then
>            if [[ $DEBUG_INSTALL == "1" ]]; then echo "File /usr/lib/$f
> found...";fi
>         else
>            if [[ $DEBUG_INSTALL == "1" ]]; then echo "File /usr/lib/$f not
> found... copy it!";fi
>            cp $CLIENTDIR/api/bin/$f /usr/lib <--          HARGHHHHHH
>         fi
> done
> ....
> # remove buildDate
> rm -f $CLIENTDIR/api/bin/.buildDate        <-- HARGHHHHHHHHHHHH
> rm -f $CLIENTDIR/lang/.buildDate            <-- HARGHHHHHHHHHHHH
> #######
> rpm -V TIVsm-API
> missing     /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin/.buildDate
> missing     /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/lang/.buildDate
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jason Corley said (at
>> 12:35pm...:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you try sign an RPM built with 3.0.x with a 4.X.Y version of RPM, the
>>>> RPM becomes corrupted.
>>>>
>>>> Would this be something that's easy to fix -- make RPM 5.1.x capable of
>>>> signing both modern and ancient RPMs?  It sure would make a lot of
>>>> sysadmins lives easier, as they wouldn't have to keep an old copy of RPM
>>>> around just to sign packages they get from vendors.
>>>
>>> Having asked this question once or twice over the last few years I'll
>>> save Jeff the hassle of telling you that it's an insoluble problem.
>>> So short answer is if it ain't happened by now, it ain't gonna happen.
>>> Jason
>>
>> Thanks Jason.  I pretty much figured that was the case, but hope springs
>> eternal, as they say.  ;-)
>>
>> Tim
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