Re: Successfull reinstall, but exit code 1

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> I'm running a yum reinstall pam.x86_64 which properly does what the
>>> command says, but the exit code is 1. I turned up -d and -e but there
>>> were no warnings/errors. Is this perhaps a phony error code? If so,
>>> how can I remove it in the sources?
>>>
>>> This is with yum 3.2.23 (from Fedora 11)
>>
>> Can you attach any/all output? It sounds like there may have been some
>> sort of non-fatal scriptlet error.
>
> I'll try to recreate the previous state, but there was no warning from
> yum even with -d 50 -e 50, so I'm not sure it will be of any value.
>
> So, yum reinstall reflects the (last?) scriplet's exit code?  Is that
> what yum install and yum remove do as well? E.g. if yum install
> completes successfully on the screen it may have an exit code != 0 due
> to a soft-failed pre/post scriplet?

okay - I think I misunderstood. I think I can make this one happen - it 
looks like reinstall is showing that exit code for any pkg.

-sv