[Yum] yum-arch dies on non-rpm file

Smith, Eric V. ericsmith at windsor.com
Mon Mar 17 14:54:09 UTC 2003


> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 08:43, Smith, Eric V. wrote:
> > > I dunno about going on - It could potentially make for a dangerous
> > > situation on the client-side. Consider if it missed an 
> > > important update
> > > that caused a lot of other things to fail to update. I 
> think exiting
> > > with a more graceful error makes a lot more sense than 
> continuing and
> > > ignoring the problem.
> > 
> > I agree.  I've had situations where a single file got 
> corrupted while
> > downloading (usually 0 length).  I'd rather see an error message.
> 
> 
> So you want it to error w/ a sensible error message then exit?

Yes.  Sorry for not being clear.

Eric.



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