[Samba] Bug in sernet RPM's postun?

[Adam Williams]

there were various rpm build problems in samba 3.2.0 - 3.2.10 that have 
been fixed in 3.2.11.  I would grab the source, untar it, and run 
./packaging/RHEL/makerpms.sh

Richard Foltyn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering whether this possible bug with the Sernet Samba3
> RPMs for CentOS 5 is known, since it has not yet been fixed.
>
> When uninstalling the Sernet RPMs for Samba3 (in this case Samba 3.2.x)
> the %postun scriptlet fails every time with:
>
> # rpm -e samba3-3.2.0-36
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56356: line 2: fg: no job control
> error: %postun(samba3-3.2.0-36.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>
> Consequently, yum reports an constantly increasing number of unfinished
> transactions and cannot uninstall outdated versions of Samba:
>
> # rpm -q samba3
> samba3-3.2.1-37
> samba3-3.2.3-37
> samba3-3.2.5-37
> samba3-3.2.6-37
> samba3-3.2.7-37
> samba3-3.2.7-38
> samba3-3.2.8-38
> samba3-3.2.10-38.el5
> samba3-3.2.11-38.el5
>
> Google finds several other people having the same problem for some
> months now.
>
> The solution is not to run %postun
>
> # rpm -e --nopostun samba3-3.2.1-37
>
> but this does not work with yum and has to be done manually every time,
> so it would be great if this was fixed in some future release.
>
> Also, many thanks to the Sernet team for providing these RPMs.
>
> Richard
>
>