On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:37 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > 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. Good questions. I would base the definition of failure on a reasonable definition of what the state of a system should be after running the corresponding yum command (and I am sure others will disagree ;) If the system is in any other state after the yum run, be that because a dependency doesn't exist in a repo, the network is down, ... that should be flagged as a failure witha non-zero exit code. If I run 'yum install p1 p2 ...' I would define success as all the packages being installed on the system after yum finishes. If I run 'yum remove p1 p2 ...' success should be that none of p1, p2, ... are installed on the system after yum finishes. > - 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. Hmm ... yum shell is a little beyond my needs right now, but I would say yum shell only succeeds if all the actions in the shell succeed individually. David
