Spec file / RPM build query for Scott

[dayo]

Hi Scott.

Just to pick your brains please.

Looking at some of the ART spec files, I notice the %pre, %post% etc sections have the code wrapped in "if [ $1 == x ]" statements.

I have been looking in rpm building documentation for info on this but haven't found anything so far.

Can you kindly enlighten me? I assume $1 represents some default internal argument of sorts passed to the script.

Thanks.

[breun]

The section Setting Triggers in the RPM Guide says:

Inside your trigger scripts, $1, the first command-line argument, holds the number of instances of your package that will remain after the operation has completed. The second argument, $2, holds the number of instances of the target package that will remain after the operation. Thus, if $2 is 0, the target package will be removed.

[scott]

This is my cheat sheet page:

https://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/RPMS

[dayo]

Thanks guys, I'll read up.

BTW Scott, never did thank you for pointing me to mock a while back. I didn't manage to get it working back then when I first tried but later did and been using it since ... mostly to build nginx since I like to upgrade a bit quicker than you release. (BTW the stable version is now at 1.0.6 from the ART 1.0.0 version).

[dayo]

Hi Scott,

The link to "art-build" is broken.

Should be "https://www.atomicorp.com/Tutorials/Building_RPMS"

Cheers.

[scott]

Its too complicated to just drop up there any more. Its a whole mess of things now, you probably dont need it unless youre building for a bunch of distros at once