seth vidal wrote: > 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: I'd argue that *any* form of failure, even partial, should not return 0/success. -- Rex
