[#MDEV-31480] RPM packages fail to install because they require /bin/sh for %pretrans

have added a %pretrans scriptlet interpreter requirement of /bin/sh. This makes it impossible to add them to a clean initial installation transaction (e.g., including them on a custom ISO for kickstarted install, or adding them to a fully clean bootstrap with an uninitialized rpmdb for OCI/similar builds).

Given that none of the packages appear to have a non-empty %pretrans scriptlet, and given that no RPM should ever use an interpreter other than the embedded Lua engine during %pretrans, whichever tool is being used to create these RPMs should be configured to omit any requirement for %pretrans time.

$ cat show-mariadb-pretrans

#!/bin/sh

ls MariaDB*.rpm

echo

tblfmt='%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n'

    versions=( 10.4.28 10.4.29 10.4.30 )

    printf "${tblfmt}" subpackage "${versions[@]}"

    for n in backup client common compat server shared; do

        z=( )

        for v in "${versions[@]}"; do

            f=MariaDB-$n-$v-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

            z+=( "'$(rpm -q --scripts -p $f 2> /dev/null | grep pretrans)'" )

        done

        printf "${tblfmt}" ${n} "${z[@]}"

    done

} | column -o'    ' -s'	' -t

echo

$ ./show-mariadb-pretrans

MariaDB-backup-10.4.28-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-common-10.4.28-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-server-10.4.28-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

MariaDB-backup-10.4.29-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-common-10.4.29-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-server-10.4.29-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

MariaDB-backup-10.4.30-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-common-10.4.30-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-server-10.4.30-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

MariaDB-client-10.4.28-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-compat-10.4.28-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-shared-10.4.28-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

MariaDB-client-10.4.29-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-compat-10.4.29-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-shared-10.4.29-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

MariaDB-client-10.4.30-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-compat-10.4.30-1.el8.x86_64.rpm  MariaDB-shared-10.4.30-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

subpackage    10.4.28    10.4.29                        10.4.30

backup        ''         'pretrans program: /bin/sh'    'pretrans program: /bin/sh'

client        ''         'pretrans program: /bin/sh'    'pretrans program: /bin/sh'

common        ''         'pretrans program: /bin/sh'    'pretrans program: /bin/sh'

compat        ''         'pretrans program: /bin/sh'    'pretrans program: /bin/sh'

server        ''         'pretrans program: /bin/sh'    'pretrans program: /bin/sh'

shared        ''         'pretrans program: /bin/sh'    'pretrans program: /bin/sh'

I wasn't sure if the MDEV project was the right place for this, being a packaging concern rather than a "real" bug, but I didn't see a more appropriate-looking spot for it, sorry if I missed something.

[MDEV-31480] RPM packages fail to install because they require /bin/sh for %pretrans Created: 2023-06-14 Updated: 2023-06-30 Resolved: 2023-06-30
Status:	Closed
Project:	MariaDB Server
Component/s:	Packaging, Platform RedHat
Affects Version/s:	10.4.29, 10.4.30
Fix Version/s:	10.4.31, 10.5.22, 10.6.15, 10.9.8, 10.10.6, 10.11.5, 11.0.3

[MDEV-31480] RPM packages fail to install because they require /bin/sh for %pretrans Created: 2023-06-14 Updated: 2023-06-30 Resolved: 2023-06-30