bz532373, was Re: tor dependency insanity.

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu Mar 4 13:28:59 UTC 2010


Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:

>> %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!!!

that's why it executes a workaround until redhat-lsb is fixed


> The mandatory (MUST) guideline is that %post MUST NOT OUTPUT anything

this means only output like license agreements, but not diagnostic
output on stderr


Enrico


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