Bug 82460 – rpm should exit with a postive return code when usage prints

Bug 82460 - rpm should exit with a postive return code when usage prints

Summary:	rpm should exit with a postive return code when usage prints

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2003-01-22 08:50 EST by James Olin Oden
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:06 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-01-22 09:01:00 EST
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Description James Olin Oden 2003-01-22 08:50:50 EST

Description of problem:
If you run rpm with an invalid command line rpm returns with an exit code
0 signifying all was well, when in fact all was not well.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.4-7x.20

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Run:

      rpm qa
2.  Type:

      echo $?

   
Actual results:
rpm prints the usage, and the echo the exit code prints 0.

Expected results:
rpm prints usage and exit code was greater than zero.

Additional info:
None.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-01-22 09:01:00 EST

Already fixed in CVS, rpm-4.2-0.59 when built.

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