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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Torsten Bronger [mailto:bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:36 AM
> To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net
> Subject: Re: RPM's %post, %postun etc
> 
> 
> Halloechen!
> 
> On Mittwoch, 21. August 2002 08:37 schrieben Sie:
> > Have you tried rebuilding your package on a system that has 
> a stock (or
> > no) .rpmmacros file? Does it still build (and 
> install/uninstall) the way
> > you intended it to?
> 
> It can't, because then %{texhash} is not defined.  But how 
> can I define a
> macro in the spec file?
> 

http://www.rpm.org/rpmapi-4.1/macros.html

> The problem exists when someone wants to install many RPMs, among them
> mine.  Let's assume that every package that adds files to TeX's
> file tree runs texhash or equivalent.  This would be a desaster!
> There are only two solutions: (1) When installing many packages
> (maybe in context of a complete system installation), %post etc.
> are skipped and a complete update script is launched after *all*
> packages have been installed.  (2) I leave the taxhash thing out.
> But then the user would have to do it.
> 
> What's the way to go?
> 
> Tschoe,
> Torsten.
> 
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