Bug 5270 – RFE: %pre(un) and %post(un) scripts should know what files were installed

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Bug 5270 - RFE: %pre(un) and %post(un) scripts should know what files were installed

Summary:	RFE: %pre(un) and %post(un) scripts should know what files were installed

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	1999-09-21 10:55 EDT by Tim Mooney
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-09-21 10:55:07 EDT
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Description Tim Mooney 1999-09-21 10:55:07 EDT

Currently, there's no way to get a list of what files
were installed (full paths preferred, since the person
running rpm may relocate the package in many cases) from
a %pre or %post, and ditto for files removed in a %preun
%postun.  This information would often be extremely useful
to have.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-13 16:04:07 EDT

rpm-4.1 permits concurrent access to the rpm
database, so the list of files can be gleaned
by doing, say,
	%post
	FILES="`rpm -ql %{name}-%{version}-%{release}`"
	...
Watch out for multiply installed pacakges however ...

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