On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 5:31 PM Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I made the scripts end with something written to stderr followed by an > > explicit "exit 1", and I can see the error message, but then it just > > succeeds. So my question is how to make RPM register that a dependency > > generator failed and in turn fail the build? > > I tried following the rpmdeps code but I gave up after one indirection > too many. I'm unfortunately unfamiliar with the RPM code base. I also > tried to use the %error macro using parametric macros for my > generators. I was able to get an error message but it wouldn't fail > the build either. Eventually, I accidentally found a nasty dirty trick > to fail the build: > > echo '!error: something went wrong!' > > In the logs I get this: > > > RPM build errors: > > Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': !error: something went wrong! > > I can't say I'm proud of this hack but at least, the error message > shows up to give a clue. I can finally add some error handling to my > dependency generators. Yes, currently the exit code is ignored, and the only way to break the build is to generate a line that does not parse as a valid RPM dependency. The Rust dependency generator does something similar, and the Python generator does too, AFAIK. Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue