[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:43 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "CS" == Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com> writes:
> [ || : bits]
> CS> Why are these no longer wanted?  First I am told to put them in, and
> CS> now I am told not to.
> 
> I was asked to remove them and told they were no longer necessary for
> one of my packages, but now I can't find it where that was.  (I think
> it was the denyhosts review, but that ticket seems to be missing from
> bugzilla completely for whatever reason.)
> 
> Honestly I don't fully understand the issue so don't take what I wrote
> as the way things have to be.

One of the scriptlets in question was:

%postun
if [ "$1" -eq "0" ]; then
    /usr/bin/pear uninstall --nodeps --ignore-errors --register-only \
        PEAR_Command_Packaging >/dev/null
fi

I'll speculate that the --ignore-errors option means that pear will
never return a non-zero exit status and hence the "|| :" is not needed
to ensure that the scriptlet always "succeeds".

Paul.