bz532373, was Re: tor dependency insanity.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Enrico Scholz wrote:
>> %post can give out something; e.g. '%post failed' which would happen
>> here due to the redhat-lsb bug.  I just give out a more useful message
>> than '%post failed' which helps people to identify the problem.
>
> %post MUST *NEVER* FAIL!!!
>
> The mandatory (MUST) guideline is that %post MUST NOT OUTPUT anything, and
> that it just plain MUST NOT fail.

In the meanwhile, since Fedora 10 rpm doesn't leave duplicates around if 
%post or %postun fails. So it's not as big a deal as it used to be.

 	- Panu -