[Yum] Can plugin set exit code?

[tim.lauridsen at gmail.com]

2011/3/14 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>

> I'm working on:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658210
> and I wonder. Is it even possible to set exit code from yum plugin?
>
> I find that I can register my function to atexit.register() or even use
> close hook. But the question is can I set exit code there?
> I find that I can use there
>  sys.exit(-1)
> but that is not nice, since I will not give chance to other plugins... :(
>
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> Miroslav Suchy
> Red Hat Satellite Engineering
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A plugin can raise PluginYumExit and yum will exit with RC=1, but this a bad
thing to do in a TYPE_CORE plugin
They are not supposed to exit yum IMO. Because it will break yum API
applications.

sys.exit(-1) in a plugin is so BAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDD :)

Tim
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