I develop a software which is distributed and installed via rpm. During install, I copy some binaries to a destination directory.
When performing rpm upgrade, I'd like the old binaries not to be deleted, and that the new ones will be added as is.
Is there an rpm built-in way to do so? I'd really like to avoid scripting in order to resolve that...
EDIT:
The above binaries were listed in @files section.
If you are manually copying the files to some directory (in %post for example) then yum/rpm doesn't know anything about them and can't remove them.
If you have them listed in the %files section (i.e. copying them to the right place under buildroot during `%install) then no, I do not believe you can have rpm leave files not listed by the new package on the system after upgrading to a newer version of the package which does not contain those files.
It might be possible to play with marking them as %config files and then "modifying" them so that rpm won't remove them but it might still rename them and I don't know if this will actually work.
