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Bug 973582 - rpm: fail build if depgenerator exits with non zero code
Summary: rpm: fail build if depgenerator exits with non zero code
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Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian Festi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-12 09:10 UTC by Stanislav Ochotnicky
Modified: 2023-11-23 15:17 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2023-11-23 15:17:37 UTC
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Github   rpm-software-management rpm issues 1183 0 None open RPM generators errors are ignored 2023-11-23 15:17:36 UTC

Description Stanislav Ochotnicky 2013-06-12 09:10:35 UTC 
rpm runs depgenerators and uses their output to produce provides/requires. However depgenerator has no way to stop the build if the package contains packaging problems. One such problem is files being put in incorrect subpackage (see bug 973304).

Depgenerator is the only phase of build that has access to mapping between files and subpackages and any checks that could be done, have to be done there. 

I would like to ask if rpm could honor exit codes of generators and fail whole build if they exit with non-zero code. This way we would catch packaging problems early instead of late when dependencies are being pulled.

Obviously there are ways this could break buildroots (but there are multiple ways to do that already). A simple suggestion would be that for rpmbuild to honor depgenerator exit code there has to be output of length XXX on stderr. That way we can force depgenerators to describe why the build is failing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.10.3.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (but I assume this is true of trunk as well)
Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-09-16 14:09:50 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 20 development cycle.
Changing version to '20'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora20
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Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov 2021-04-23 11:33:34 UTC 
It's time to accept that the time for this one is gone. Being one of the original packagers hit by it I have no more memory what is it for anymore. World has moved on.
Comment 4 Mikolaj Izdebski 2021-04-28 10:11:20 UTC 
Reopening, this is still valid request. Javapackages tools contain workarounds for this issue.
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