[Yum] why doesn't yum just exec /usr/bin/rpm?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Apr 10 23:59:39 UTC 2007


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:29:35PM -0700, Neil Harkins wrote:
> Hi. I did an strace on yum in hopes of seeing the rpm args it uses
> in certain cases, but apparently it uses python libs that do the rpm foo,
> instead of exec'ing /usr/bin/rpm. Could someone please explain the
> reasoning for that decision?

There's plenty of good reasons, but here's the killer -- RPM doesn't give
useful error codes when something goes wrong.



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