[Yum-devel] Exit non-0 when scriptlets fail?

[James Antill]

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 20:45 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I don't know if this is a recent change, but I'm seeing yum exit non-0
> when installation of packages went fine, but some scriptlets failed.
> This is most notable when doing an anaconda compose and anaconda
> installs 400+ packages in a chroot and uses the nodocs flag.  Tons of
> things fail their install-info %post commands.  Unfortunately the
> anaconda script sees that yum exited non-0 and assumes that nothing got
> installed, and bails on the rest of the compose.  Anybody know what's
> going on here?  Did yum change recently?  It doesn't look like it by
> running the most recent previous f11 build of yum, so maybe it's done
> this for a while, and some new breakage in our packages is leading to
> this.
> 
> In what scenarios will yum "successfully" install packages, but exit
> with non-0?

 The two bugs I know about are:

427866: Yum exits with success even when RPMs cannot be installed
 Closed: 2008-04-18 

465409: RFE: add option to ignore rpm scriptlet errors
 Closed: 2008-10-16

...the first one has comments from Jeremy saying it broke anaconda (but
those should have been resolved).

-- 
James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>
Red Hat
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