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Old 09-05-2008
RPM Package question

Hi,
I have built one RPM last year. now we have another version of that RPM. in previous release we had few extra files then now. so when user upgrade it those files get deleted by RPM package. We want to retain those files.

now for workaround i thought of backing up those file during "Preinstall" section and restore in "post install" but that too doesn't work because RPM package has that functionality to compare files and delete them even after "post install".

i am sure people has encountered this issue and have fix i have one more workaround and that worked but i was wondering if there is anything simpler way to do this using functionality of RPM.

Its now urgent foe me.
Thanks, Ajay
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GRID-CA-PACKAGE(1)						  Globus Commands						GRID-CA-PACKAGE(1)

NAME
grid-ca-package - Prepare a CA certificate, configuration, and policy for distribution SYNOPSIS
grid-ca-package [-help] [-h] [-usage] [-version] [-versions] grid-ca-package [-ca HASH] [-g] [-b] [-r] [-d] DESCRIPTION
The grid-ca-package utility creates a tarball containing an RPM spec file and the files needed to use a CA with grid tools. It optionally will also create a GPT package for distributing a CA. By default, the grid-ca-package utility displays a list of installed grid CA and prompts for which CA to package. It then creates a tarball containing the CA certificate, signing policy, CA configuration files, and an spec script to generate a binary RPM package containing the CA. If the CA hash is known prior to running grid-ca-package, it may provided as an argument to the -ca parameter to avoid prompting. In addition to generating a spec script and tarball, grid-ca-package creates a GPT package if either the -g or -b options are used on the command-line. These packages may be used to distribute a CA and configuration to systems which do not support RPM packages. The grid-ca-package utility writes the package tarballs to the current working directory. The full set of command-line options to grid-ca-package follows. -help, -h, -usage Display the command-line options to grid-ca-package and exit. -version, -versions Display the version number of the grid-ca-package command. The second form includes more details. -ca CA Use the CA whose name matches the hash string CA. When invoked with this option, grid-ca-package runs non-interactively. -g Create a GPT binary package in addition to the RPM script tarball. This package may be installed on other systems using the gpt-install program. -b Create a GPT binary package with GPT metadata located in the path expected by GPT 3.2 (used in Globus 2.0.0-5.0.x) instead of ${datadir}/globus/packages as used in Globus 5.2.x. This option overrides the -g command-line option. -r Create a binary RPM package for the CA. This option currently only works on RPM-based distributions. -d Create a binary Debian package for the CA. This option currently only works on Debian-based distributions. EXAMPLES
Package a Simple CA with hash 0146c503 % grid-ca-package -ca 0146c503 Creating RPM source tarball... done globus_simple_ca_0146c503.tar.gz ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of grid-ca-package: GLOBUS_LOCATION Non-standard installation path of the Globus toolkit. SEE ALSO
grid-cert-request(1), grid-ca-sign(1), grid-default-ca(1), grid-ca-create(1) AUTHOR
University of Chicago Globus Toolkit 5.2.0 07/22/2011 GRID-CA-PACKAGE(1)