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Old 07-14-2010
RPM Updation & Keeping User Change files during removal
Hi All,

I have a RPM for an Java based application. Currently it works fine.

But recently I want to implement that when newer packages gets installed over the older one, the rpm should only update the older files with the newer one (I know this could be done by rpm -Uvh xxx.rpm), but it should not update any such file changed by the user (say a config file).

Also, during rpm removal process it should only remove only those files which were got installed during installation time, not any files which were added after post-installation process.
Current for this I have "postun" script which removes everything, but I want to keep the user added files as it is.

Can I achieve by any rpm commands or by other means.

thanks.
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MACROS.JPACKAGE(7)						RPM Java packaging						MACROS.JPACKAGE(7)

NAME

       macros.jpackage - RPM macros for Java packagers and developers. Written for the JPackage Project <http://www.jpackage.org/>:

SYNOPSIS

       %_jvmdir
	    Root directory where all Java VMs/SDK/JREs are installed.

       %_jvmjardir
	    Root directory where all Java VMs/SDK/JREs expose their jars

       %_jvmprivdir
	    Root directory for all Java VM/SDK/JRE's private things.

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	    Root directory for all architecture dependent parts of Java VM/SDK/JRE's

       %_jvmdatadir
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       %_jvmsysconfdir
	    Root directory for all configurations parts of Java VM/SDK/JRE's

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       %_jvmcommondatadir
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       %_jvmcommonsysconfdir
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       %_javadir
	    Directory where arch and version independent jars are installed.

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       %add_jvm_extension
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DESCRIPTION

       This is a library of generic rpm macros which should be used on jpackage.org compatible distributions.

FILES

       /etc/rpm/macros.jpackage
	    Definitions of macros. For additional informations look at this file.

       /use/share/java-utils/java-functions
	    shell script functions library for Java applications

       /etc/java/java.conf
	    system-wide Java configuration file

       ~/.java/java.conf
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SEE ALSO

   Regular Manual Pages
       java.conf(5)
       java-functions(7)
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jpackage-utils 1.7.5						   February 2009						MACROS.JPACKAGE(7)