Bug 1670

I'm not sure rpm actually tell us about such errors.

Eg: I/O errors used to be (still are?) silently ignored.
It's somewhat visible with urpmi since rpm actually writes
error message on the console but urpmi is actually unaware
of that.

Well, for the pre the installation fails, I would expect rpm to report that the transaction failed (maybe not on which package and why).

(In reply to comment #2)
> Well, for the pre the installation fails, I would expect rpm to report that the
> transaction failed (maybe not on which package and why).

Yes, at least giving some sign to the user that it failed.

ping?

CC: (none) => marja11

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/913221

CC: (none) => n3npq

3 monthly ping

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

It's at times like this when I wish that I had not been so enthusiastic in reporting this. :(

It was actually aimed at the get-skype package that I was working on at the time which would die quietly if the download failed.

Since no one else has complained about this I think it reasonable to consider it a candidate for a WONTFIX as I am sure we have more important issues to deal with.

Closing as RESOLVED WONTFIX

Please feel free to re-open ;)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

I'm re-opening as I have now another need for this to work.

In an attempt to stop grub2 updates from happening if /boot/grub2/drakboot.conf does not exist I tested this:

%pre
if [ $1 -eq 2 ] && ![ -e /boot/grub2/drakboot.conf ]; then
echo -e "Cannot update grub2 without a known target boot drive \n \
please create /boot/grub2/drakboot.conf containing boot=/dev/sdX \n \
and try to update again"
exit 1
fi

The result:

[root@jackodesktop grub2]# rpm -qa|grep grub2
grub2-mageia4-theme-dejavu-1.0-1.mga4
grub2-2.00-58.mga4

[root@jackodesktop grub2]# urpmi --auto-update
medium "Extra Release (zm-repo46)" is up-to-date
medium "Core Release (zm-repo1)" is up-to-date
medium "Core Updates (zm-repo3)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Release (zm-repo11)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Updates (zm-repo13)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Release (zm-repo21)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Updates (zm-repo23)" is up-to-date
medium "Core 32bit Release (zm-repo31)" is up-to-date
medium "Core 32bit Updates (zm-repo32)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree 32bit Release (zm-repo36)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree 32bit Updates (zm-repo37)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted 32bit Release (zm-repo41)" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted 32bit Updates (zm-repo42)" is up-to-date
To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed:
  Package                        Version      Release       Arch    
(medium "Extra Release (zm-repo46)")
  grub2                          2.00         59.mga4       x86_64  
16B of disk space will be freed.
2MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of one package? (Y/n) y


[root@jackodesktop grub2]# rpm -q grub2
grub2-2.00-58.mga4
[root@jackodesktop grub2]#

Nothing reported by urpmi at all (the package was already in cache so no download shown)

How can I get this message to be displayed in both GUI and urpmi when the install fails?

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX => (none)

We don't want a random package to randomly abort in its %pre, thus breaking urpmi flow.
That's a bad idea

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX