[Fedora-packaging] Re: mass-filed --excludedocs bugs

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote, at 08/07/2009 12:40 AM +9:00:
> On 08/06/2009 11:29 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
>> E.g. I think it is better to ">/dev/null 2>&1 || :" in this case
> 
> The more I think about this, the more I agree. I'm not sure we'd ever 
> want to fail the build if the install-info command throws an error, so 
> squelching any noise there seems like the logical solution.
> 
> Anyone disagree?
> 
> ~spot

There can be some cases in which info files themselves are broken
(for example which occured on cloog-ppl package).
I think throwing all messages into /dev/null is dangerous, this type
of error must be caught properly.

Regards,
Mamoru