[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 203864] Review Request: tripwire - IDS

[Matthias Saou]

seth vidal wrote :

> If we could get rpm to be silent and have all of the messages (stderr or
> stdout) be presented back to us as part of the callback I think most of
> us would be quite happy. If only b/c it would mean we would then have
> the option of echoing it back to the user, saving it to a log or both.

I couldn't agree more. I find it plain silly to almost always have to
execute "foo args &>/dev/null || :" in scriplets, when getting the
output of the command as well as knowing if it actually failed or
succeeded can be interesting information. If we could have a log file
of rpm operations output, it would be really great.

*BUT* this does mean breaking backwards compatibility in many cases
(i.e. having failing scriplets leave duplicate packages in the rpmdb).

Matthias

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