[Yum] Successfull reinstall, but exit code 1

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Seth Vidal wrote:

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> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Axel Thimm wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>>> I'm running a yum reinstall pam.x86_64 which properly does what the
>>>> command says, but the exit code is 1. I turned up -d and -e but there
>>>> were no warnings/errors. Is this perhaps a phony error code? If so,
>>>> how can I remove it in the sources?
>>>> 
>>>> This is with yum 3.2.23 (from Fedora 11)
>>> 
>>> Can you attach any/all output? It sounds like there may have been some
>>> sort of non-fatal scriptlet error.
>> 
>> I'll try to recreate the previous state, but there was no warning from
>> yum even with -d 50 -e 50, so I'm not sure it will be of any value.
>> 
>> So, yum reinstall reflects the (last?) scriplet's exit code?  Is that
>> what yum install and yum remove do as well? E.g. if yum install
>> completes successfully on the screen it may have an exit code != 0 due
>> to a soft-failed pre/post scriplet?
>
> okay - I think I misunderstood. I think I can make this one happen - it looks 
> like reinstall is showing that exit code for any pkg.


okay - just tested it more - something in the rpm transaction is saying 
there is a scriptlet or other non-fatal error.

Please open a bug (in fedora bz) on this one and I'll see if I can get 
some rpm-dev input on it, too.

thanks,
-sv