[Yum] Re: yum exit codes

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Mar 5 01:23:56 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:14 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:40 -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > Should the corresponding information be summarized in the log, then?
> > The reason, etc. should go somewhere.
> 
> I would be happy with all this stuff winding up on stderr, but a
> separate error log for yum might be nice for systems where yum isn't
> used much interactively.
> 

a summarized log doesn't really make it easier to script, though, you
need to have a parseable log and when you get to that point I think it's
time some starts to learn python rather than raking us across the coals
to provide a shell-script capable interface.

-sv





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