[Yum-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Non-zero errorlevel when reinstall arg not available. BZ 800285.

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 6 14:44:14 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 13:06 +0100, Zdeněk Pavlas wrote:
> When there's a command with N arguments, the general consent
> is that we should try to process all of them, and let the caller
> know if any argument has failed.

 NAK.

 All of the yum commands that return an error at all (Eg. install/list)
do so when _all_ of the arguments are "bad".
 We could make up some new error code meaning "one of the arguments you
passed was bad" ... but that would still break stuff, and I'm not sure
it's worth it.



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