On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:40:00AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Jeffrey C. Ollie schrieb: > > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 14:55 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> BTW, I think there was already a consensus some months ago to disallow > >> output from the rpm scripts entirely. But it never found the way into > >> the guidelines afaics :-/ > > Maybe there was an agreement on non-error messages, but error messages > > should be allowed in certain circumstances. > > Well, allowed maybe, but it IMHO does not make to much sense for the > same reasons (you won't see them in nightly yum updates, front ends like > pirut won't show them and you often won't even see them in plain yum as > they often scroll away quite soon due to the output from installing > other packages, ...), so you should not rely on them. An error message should of course be accompanied with a non-zero exit code of the scriplet, in which case no tool will scroll by (or if a tool would do that it would ba a bug in the tool) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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