info scriptlets and nodoc in rpmrc

[Christopher Stone]

On 1/18/07, Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hans de Goede schrieb:
> > Ville Skyttä wrote:
> >> On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:20, Goede, J.W.R. de wrote:
> >>> Because I'm low on harddiskspace on a certain machine I've
> >>> added nodoc to my rpmrc, so that rpm no longer installs
> >>> %doc files, now however during a yum update I get numerous
> >>> install-info: no such file or directory ....
> >>> errors and worse:
> >>> error %post(xxx) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 errors
> >>
> >> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-January/msg00017.html
> >>
> >> http://koti.welho.com/vskytta/install-infos/
> >>
> >> (54 of the reported Core packages remain unfixed at the moment)
> >>
> >
> > Maybe one of the bugzilla scripting guru's on this list can take your
> > list of packages and autofile bugs against all them?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hans
> >
> >
>
> I've patched the specfiles of autoconf, automake, ed and wget so that the scriptlets
> won't fail even when install-info fails.
> But how about the error messages ? Shouldn't we redirect them to /dev/null ?
>
>    Karsten

Why not just redirect it to logger? Something like:
foo 2>&1 | logger