[Postfix RPMs] Reported problems with my RPMs

[Simon J Mudd]

Hello All,

This message is just to warn those of you who may upgrade my packages
about a problem which a few people have experienced during a package
upgrade.  I'd also like to solicit help from those of you who may already
have experienced this problem.

A user, having self-built a package has experienced the following problem 
on package upgrade:

---
# rpm -qa|grep postfix
postfix-20010808snapshot-5ldap+pcre
# rpm -Fvh postfix-1.1.7-1.rh70.1.ldap.pcre.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:postfix                
warning: /etc/cron.daily/1postfix createdas /etc/cron.daily/1postfix.rpmnew
warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf created as /etc/postfix/main.cf.rpmnew
warning: /etc/postfix/master.cf created as/etc/postfix/master.cf.rpmnew
########################################### [100%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84496: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84496: line 9: `    copy() { file=`basename $1`; ln -f
$1 $2/$file 2>/dev/null || { test -L $1 2>/dev/null && { dest=`ls -l $1|
awk '{print $11}'`; ln -sf $dest $2/$file; } || cp -dpf $1 $2/$file; }
}'
error: execution of %post scriptlet from
postfix-1.1.7-1.rh70.1.ldap.pcre failed, exit status 2
---

This led him to have two postfix packages installed and the upgrade script 
didn't terminate properly leaving master.cf incorrectly configured for the 
newer version of postfix.

Obviously I would like to avoid this happening but the spec file's use of 
the copy function works fine on my machine.  One or two other people have 
complained about this failing but I haven't yet discovered exactly what 
I'm doing wrong.

Therefore I'd ask anyone who experiences this, or has experienced 
this problem to advise me of the system that causes the error and the 
packages installed to which this may be related, ie the output of:

	rpm -q rpm
	rpm -q redhat-release
	rpm -qf /bin/ln
	rpm -qf	/bin/ls
	rpm -qf	/bin/awk
	rpm -qf	/bin/cp
	rpm -qf	/bin/basename
	rpm -qf	/bin/sh

Many thanks for the pointers you can give me and hopefully I'll avoid this 
bug catching others.

Regards,

Simon
-- 
Simon J Mudd,   Tel: +34-91-408 4878,  Mobile: +34-605-085 219
Madrid, Spain.  email: sjmudd at pobox.com,  Postfix RPM Packager

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