Bug 51727
| Summary: | rpm 4.0.2 returns 0 status despite error message | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tim Freeman <tim> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-08-14 14:23:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The exit status of rpm has always been the number of failed operations/objects, not a boolean "bad operation" like many programs return. In addition, --target is not actually known to the /bin/rpm executable, it's a configurable popt alias that execs /usr/bin/rpmbuild. That executable returns a non-zero exit status: bash$ rpmbuild --target || echo yeah --target: missing argument yeah In fact, it looks like you have not installed the rpm-build package |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13-tim i686; Nav) Description of problem: In some cases, when rpm 4.0.2 prints a verbose error message, it returns exit status 0, which causes programs like make to assume that it succeeded when it did not. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Here's how I can reproduce the problem on my system. Comments added afterward are in >>><<<'s. [tim@fungible ~]$ rpm --target RPM version 4.0.2 Copyright (C) 1998-2000 - Red Hat, Inc. This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL Usage: rpm {--help} rpm {--version} >>>Blah, blah, blah<<< rpm {--rebuilddb} [--rcfile <file>] [--dbpath <dir>] rpm {--querytags} [tim@fungible ~]$ echo $status 0 >>>Should have been nonzero<<< [tim@fungible ~]$ rpm --version RPM version 4.0.2 [tim@fungible ~]$ uname -a Linux fungible.com 2.2.13-tim #13 Sat Apr 8 10:30:17 PDT 2000 i686 unknown Actual Results: Exit status 0 Expected Results: Any other exit status. Additional info: Trivial bug, but also probably a trivial fix, so probably worth doing.