Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 70938
make rpm command line do error checking
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
I wasted quite a bit of time finding out that rpm --noscripts -e abisuite does not work, but rpm -e --noscripts abisuite does what I expected. If one argument (for example, --noscripts) cannot preceed another argument (for example, -e) then an error message should be produced, it shouldn't just silently ignore it. Of course it SHOULD just do what I obviously meant, but I'm going to aim low and just ask that you add *diagnostics* rather than fixing the whole braindead chain of logic in the argument parser. Whoever inflicted the rpm command-line on us should be skinned alive with a rusty spoon. rpm-4.0.4-7x RH 7.0 Linux 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
I believe this is fixed in rpm-4.1 (hmmm, checking, yes). You have no idea how much pain the rpm CLI has caused me. I believe that most all the real weirdities have been addressed, with the exception of better diagnostics for conflicting and/or mutually exclusive options. However save your spoon for someone else, it wasn't me who created all the options.