John Summerfield wrote:
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> Paul A. Rombouts wrote:
>>>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> My immediate problem is my preferred browser is Mozilla - er - 
>>>>>> Seamonkey. I couldn't find it with yum, nor with Google, nor can I 
>>>>>> see that anyone's asked about it for SL5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have it? or should I just build it myself? Might have 
>>>>>> a src.rpm around here someplace....
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I had the same problem and I actually asked about seamonkey for SL5 on
>>>>> this list before you did, John.
>>>>>
>>>>> I recommend building this src rpm from releases.mozilla.org:
>>>>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.2/contrib/FC_RPMS/source/seamonkey-1.1.2-1.src.rpm 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmm. A mere 34 mbytes. Okay, I pull bigger things through my modem. 
>>>> Thanks Paul.
>>>
>>> Er:
>>> 15:05 [summer@numbat ~]$ sudo rpm -Fvh 
>>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm /usr/src/re 
>>>                        dhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-mail-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm 
>>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-chat-1.1.2-1.i386.rp                
>>> m /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm 
>>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey- dom-inspector-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm
>>> Password:
>>> Preparing...                
>>> ########################################### [100%]
>>>    1:seamonkey              
>>> ########################################### [ 50%]
>>> error: %post(seamonkey-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
>>>    2:seamonkey-mail         
>>> ########################################### [100%]
>>> error: %post(seamonkey-mail-1.1.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit 
>>> status 255
>>> error: %preun(seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit 
>>> status 255
>>> 15:05 [summer@numbat ~]$
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a good way to see what the problem is?
>>>
>>
>> rpm -qp --scripts /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm
>> rpm -qp --scripts 
>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/seamonkey-mail-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm
>>
>> Note: You don't have to be root to look at the scripts.
> 
> That tells me why I can't see why some of them didn't work. But take 
> this for example:
> preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> # is a final removal?
> if [ "$1" == "0" ]; then
>   /bin/rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/overlayinfo
>   /bin/rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.8/chrome/*.rdf
> fi
> 
> (it appears twice).
> That should not produce any error unless something goes wrong and the 
> only thing I can think of is that root cannot delete those files.
> 

If you are doing an upgrade, then the

if [ "$1" == "0" ]; then

fi

will see that you are doing an upgrade and not run the code in there.
Why this is failling ... I'm not positive.

Troy
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