Re: why doesn't yum just exec /usr/bin/rpm?
Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:29:35PM -0700, Neil Harkins wrote: > Hi. I did an strace on yum in hopes of seeing the rpm args it uses > in certain cases, but apparently it uses python libs that do the rpm foo, > instead of exec'ing /usr/bin/rpm. Could someone please explain the > reasoning for that decision? There's plenty of good reasons, but here's the killer -- RPM doesn't give useful error codes when something goes wrong. -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>