Re: grep in spec file causes rpmbuild to abort with bad exit status

[marks <marks adax com>]

Yes, I was using the $? return code.  Your suggestion works perfectly.

Thanks.  :)

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:28:56 +0000
> From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange nsk no-ip org>
> Reply-To: RPM Package Manager <rpm-list redhat com>
> To: rpm-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: grep in spec file causes rpmbuild to abort with bad exit
>     status
> 
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:14:23PM -0800, marks wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using grep in the install section of my spec file to determine
> > if another file does or does not contain a piece of information.
> > rpmbuild is aborting with a "bad exit status" message when grep 
> > does not find the item of interest.
> 
> How are you doing that check? Using "$?"?
> 
> If you use it directly:
> if grep -q bla file; then
>  ....
> 
> rpmbuild doesn't exit.
> 
> If you want to ignore the exit code of a command, then add ||: (ie. or true).
> Note that will change $? to true.
>  
> > Is there a way to turn off rpmbuild's abort of the entire build
> > temporarily while I do the grep?
> 
> set +e
> grep
> set -e
> 
> 

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Thanks,

Mark Sincerbox
Adax, Inc.
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