The jenkins rpm fails to install on a new server due to failures in the PREIN scriptlet.  For example, here is the yum output when running "yum install jenkins" on a new server.

jenkins-2.176.3-1.1.noarch.rpm | 74 MB 00:00:18
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
stat: cannot stat ‘/var/cache/jenkins’: No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat ‘/var/log/jenkins’: No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat ‘/var/lib/jenkins’: No such file or directory
error: %pre(jenkins-2.176.3-1.1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package jenkins-2.176.3-1.1.noarch
Verifying : jenkins-2.176.3-1.1.noarch 1/1

Failed:
jenkins.noarch 0:2.176.3-1.1

This also causes our puppet automation to fail since the package cannot be installed.