On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:28 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > For an application that is not written in python, I need to do some > simple yum actions (yum update/yum install/yum list updates) and would > like to have a clean indication of whether the yum command succeeded or > not. Unfortunately, it seems that, e.g. yum install exits with return > code 0 even if something went wrong during the install. > > What is the recommended way of achieveing this without having to write > my own python gluecode ? define a failure for me: - if you ask to install 5 packages and 2 of them are not available in a repo and 1 of them is already installed but 2 of them can be installed - is that a failure or a success? - if you ask to remove 2 packages and 1 is not installed and 1 is installed. Is that a failure or a success. - if you use the yum shell and stack 3 update commands, 2 install commands and 1 update command. And only one action does not work, is that a failure or a success. I'm not being flippant nor ignoring this - but I've been trying to figure out an adequate way to express partial failure for a while and I'm open to suggestions. -sv
