Re: rpm user input

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:09:41PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:

> You can enter any program/command in the %pre and %post sections of the 
> spec, including ones that ask for user input. These sections are 
> essentially scripts that get executed before and after the files are 
> installed, respectively. If the %pre script(let) exits with a "false" 
> (non-0) status, the rpm won't actually be installed.

Yes, but be aware that this is "not-done" and that such an RPM will
always be considered an example of bad packaging (and the author will
be flamed forever ;-)).

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