PR#1113: Remove note about rpm scriptlet arg being zero - packaging-committee

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#1113 Remove note about rpm scriptlet arg being zero

Merged 2 years ago by tibbs. Opened 2 years ago by oturpe.

oturpe/packaging-committee scriptlet-args-fixup into master

Remove note about rpm scriptlet arg being zero

Otto Urpelainen • 2 years ago

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guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Scriptlets.adoc

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		`@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@`
		`they will be supplied with an argument.`
		`This argument, accessed via $1 (for shell scripts)`
		`is the number of packages of this name`
		`- which will be left on the system when the action completes,`
		`- except for %pretrans and %posttrans which are always run with $1 as 0.`
		`+ which will be left on the system when the action completes.`
		`So for the common case of install, upgrade, and uninstall we have:`

		`[cols=",,,",]`

oturpe commented 2 years ago

In earlier commit,
the table about rpm scriptlet argument value was updated
to show non-zero values for %pretrans and %posttrans scriptlets.
However, the paragraph right above the table
is still claiming the values are zero.
Removing the claim, since it is not true any more.

oturpe commented 2 years ago

Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about rpm scriptlets.
I was just following the notifications from this repository,
and there seemed to be an inconsistency here.

Even after this change, the modified paragraph is a bit confusing,
because is not clear what is meant by "action",
especially in case of the transaction triggers %pretrans and %posttrans.
So maybe it would be even better
if somebody who actually understands these things
would submit a better update.

Edited 2 years ago by oturpe