How to exit rpm install in case of an error

Question

I am looking for a way to exit rpm install if some condition is false. I have added a small script in the %pre section that exits install if my condition fails.

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Answer 1

If you need this just to make sure there is certain file in the filesystem, you can do simple

Requires: /path/to/expected/file

Otherwise you are indeed out of luck probably.

I could think of extremely ugly solution that would involve killing rpm from within scriptlet, but that is beyond evil :-)

Answer 2

Did you try to use Verification Scripts? Writing Verification Scripts