> It seems, from analysis of the code, that this is the expected behavior,
> but it was certainly unexpected from our point of view. At minimum,
> this difference between install mode and non-install mode should be
> documented.
I don't see anything in the code that would suggest it's expected, or
even possible, behavior.
I apologize, the statement made above was based on observations I made in
#lsb, it wasn't from any in-depth analysis of the code. Basically, in
looking at alien.pl, I saw the following snippet and the comment is what I
mentioned in IRC:
if ($package->origformat ne $format || $generate) {
..snip..
}
elsif ($install) {
# Don't convert the package, but do install it.
..snip..
}
This comment combined with the wording of the man page made it seem like
the two operations were somehow exclusive.
I think what is probably needed is someone to come up with a simple test
RPM that can exercize this functionality (running pre-and-post inst
scripts). Chances are that will probably be someone at the LSB simply
because we were the ones who first reported it.
IIRC, the original LSB bug actually doesn't include any such data.
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