Re: bailing out of a build in install/uninstall script

[rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>]

On 6 Jan 2002, Dan Poirier wrote:

> rpjday <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> >   according to "maximum rpm", there is a way in, say, a %pre or %preun
> > script in which you can decide to not proceed with the install or
> > removal, but it doesn't mention what that is.
> > 
> >   is it as simple as doing an "exit 0" in the middle of that
> > script?
> 
> If the script fails, the RPM will not be installed.  Execution failure
> in Unix is indicated by a non-zero exit code.  So "exit 1" would do
> it.

oops ... of course that's what i meant.  you knew that.  :-)

rday