The short answer is - in theory the --justdb option is not intended to run any pre or post scripts and care is taken in the reference version of RPM to ensure that only database-related actions occur. For example:
The only specific criteria relating to justdb that I am aware of is
To confirm that that is actually true for the particular RPM installer you are using, you would have to examine it's source code. In particular, examine all instances of RPMTRANS_FLAG_JUSTDB or whatever flag is defined to represent the --justdb option in that particular codebase.
Are you seeing some behavior that leads you to suspect that an install or uninstall script is being invoked?
I have an application for linux writen by me. and before use it, I have to install it. I 've writen a shell program to install it. Now how can I turn it to the *.rpm ? Is this can done by shell command rpm? How to do it?
thanks (1 Reply)
Hey,
I've a problem installing a package. rpm -ivh brings the errors:
libjvm.so is needed by
libverify.so is needed by
But I have installed the Java SDK like requested and the files are on the disk. But I have no idea how to find out, why rpm cann't find them.
I have also... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to install an rpm file,but I only have '.src.rpm' version of it. I want to convert it to a binary rpm.
so I tried this
rpm --rebuild somethin.src.rpm
But I am gettin '--rebuild:Invalid option' as output
Is there another way to rebuild source rpm.?
Thanks in... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have got few RPM's from rpmfind.net ( mainly gcc ).
But it seems to be src files instead of the image.
so I think we have to build the src files according to target machine using rpmbuild.
Can any one help me with
1) Various options of rpm build that have to be taken care
2)... (3 Replies)
It's the end of the day and I just can't get my head around this. I'm trying to extract just the name of the RPM from the path to a .rpm file. So from:
/home/me/rpm/RPMS/i386/nagios-our-plugins-1.2-6.i386.rpmI need to extract 'nagios-our-plugins'.
I can't get the awk syntax right:
awk '{... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a questions. Does installing an rpm do more than simply extracting stuff onto the filesystem and registering the rpm as installed? Can it do stuff like kick off scripts and update environment variables in files etc?
Thank you. (3 Replies)
How to make RPM not write to RPM database if RPM fails to deploy?
IE I create an rpm spec file that contains the following
if
then
exit 1
fi
My rpm will fail at deployment, but if I do rpm -qa , I can see the rpm in the rpm db (3 Replies)
Dear All
Can you please let me know where to obtain the rpm package of RADIUS for my RedHat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon)?
Thank you (1 Reply)
Hello,
From All of you GURU i have one query kindly tell me difference between below two rpm
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5.i386.rpm
oracleasm-support-2.0.3-1.i386.rpm
I am waiting for your promt and brief reply
Thanks & Regards,
Umair (1 Reply)
dears
i am trying to install the autoconf-2.63-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm but its shows the below error message .
P700_dev/svn/dependencies>rpm -i autoconf-2.63-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
m4 is needed by autoconf-2.63-1
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makedeltarpm
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makedeltarpm - create a deltarpm from two rpms
SYNOPSIS
makedeltarpm [-v] [-V version] [-z compression] [-m mbytes] [-s seqfile] [-r] [-u] oldrpm newrpm deltarpm
makedeltarpm [-v] [-V version] [-z compression] [-s seqfile] [-u] -p oldrpmprint oldpatchrpm oldrpm newrpm deltarpm
DESCRIPTION
makedeltarpm creates a deltarpm from two rpms. The deltarpm can later be used to recreate the new rpm from either filesystem data or the
old rpm. Use the -v option to make makedeltarpm more verbose about its work (use it twice to make it even more verbose).
If you want to create a smaller and faster to combine "rpm-only" deltarpm which does not work with filesystem data, specify the -r option.
makedeltarpm normally produces a V3 format deltarpm, use the -V option to specify a different version if desired. The -z option can be used
to specify a different compression method, the default is to use the same compression method as used in the new rpm.
The -s option makes makedeltarpm write out the sequence id to the specified file seqfile.
If you also use patch rpms you should use the -p option to specify the rpm-print of oldrpm and the created patch rpm. This option tells
makedeltarpm to exclude the files that were not included in the patch rpm but are not byteswise identical to the ones in oldrpm.
makedeltarpm can also create an "identity" deltarpm by adding the -u switch. In this case only one rpm has to be specified. An identity
deltarpm can be useful to just replace the signature header of a rpm or to reconstruct a rpm from the filesystem.
MEMORY CONSIDERATIONS
makedeltarpm normally needs about three to four times the size of the rpm's uncompressed payload. You can use the -m option to enable a
sliding block algorithm that needs mbytes megabytes of memory. This trades memory usage with the size of the created deltarpm. Furthermore,
the uncompressed deltarpm payload is currently also stored in memory when this option is used, but it tends to be small in most cases.
SEE ALSO applydeltarpm(8)combinedeltarpm(8)AUTHOR
Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
Jul 2010 MAKEDELTARPM(8)