[Yum] Re: yum exit codes

[David Lutterkort]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:23 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. The only thing such a log might be useful is for inclusion in an
alert to an admin. But either way, I am not too bothered about that
right now.

David