On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Valery Reznic wrote: > --- Greg Allen <GAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am doing the following in the %install section of > > my spec file: > > > > source <script> > > func <x> <y> <z> > > > > The shell function "func" is contained in <script> > > and runs fine outside of > > the rpmbuild call. When rpmbuild runs, however, I > > get this: > > > > + read -a line > > + echo SunOS > > + egrep -qs '^Linux$|^Linux,|,Linux,|,Linux$' > > + '[' 1 -ne 0 ']' > > + return 1111 > > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5856 > > (%install) > > > > Here's the snippet of code from "func": > > > > cat $file | egrep -v '^#' | \ > > while read -a line; do > > echo ${line[$platform_idx]} | egrep > > $egrep_flags > > "^$platform$|^$platform,|,$platform,|,$platform$" > > if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then > > # Do some stuff here. > > fi > > done > > # Check if file processing succeeded. > > if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then > > return 1111 > > fi > > > > For some reason, when run inside rpmbuild, the > > failure of the egrep call is causing the > > while loop to be exited! I have no idea why. > > > > I have also run the rpmbuild generated script > > (/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5856) standalone, and > > it runs just fine. > > > > Can anyone tell me what is wrong? > As long as I remember rpm's shell scriplets run with > '-e' flag, i.e, script will be aborted after > FIRSTcommand with non-zero exit status. > You can try to run this script standalone but with -e > and see what's happened. I think that is only true of build scriptlets (thanks for letting me know how rpm does this by the way). Install scriplets do not behave this way. cheers...james > Valery > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list