Howto print message on rpm install?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Dec 27 06:08:22 UTC 2006


Jeffrey C. Ollie schrieb:
> On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 06:40 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Jeffrey C. Ollie schrieb:
>>> Maybe there was an agreement on non-error messages, but error messages
>>> should be allowed in certain circumstances.
>> Well, allowed maybe, but it IMHO does not make to much sense for the
>> same reasons so you should not rely on them.
> True, but to just silently ignore errors just seems wrong to me.

Yeap.

> If all
> output to stdout/stderr is to be banned then there should be some
> standard mechanism for reporting the errors so that the user can be
> informed & deal with the situation.  Of course, this all takes time...

Something for the next-gen rpm? Or should we try to build something
around the current rpm?

CU
thl




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