[Fedora-packaging] kmod: $1 in %post and firends broken (was: Kernel Module Packaging Standard Teleconference)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:30:54PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
In the kmdl scheme they would both get installed and the old ones
uninstalled (same for the firmware). %post %postun would also perform
the proper install/upgrade distinction (another thing kmods fail, you
cannot know whether this is an upgrade of install in the specfile, but
that's another story).
The argument is rather obvious, but before people ask:
$1 is the number of packages with the same name existing after this
rpm operation and is used in scriplets to decide whether this package
is a first-time install, an upgrade or a final deletion.
For kmdls this is the number of kmdls for this kernel/kabi, for kmods
it for all kernels, therefore the kmod can never know whether it's a
first time install/upgrade/deletion for the kernel it's being
installed in. E.g. usage of $1 in kmods'scriplets is broken.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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