On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:16:50AM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: > Hi mentors, > > I read the Debian policy to create my package and i read this at chapter > "6.1 Introduction to package maintainer scripts" > > "The package management system looks at the exit status from these > scripts. *It is important that they exit with a non-zero status if there > is an error*, so that the package management system can stop its > processing. For shell scripts this means that you almost always need to > use set -e (this is usually true when writing shell scripts, in fact). > It is also important, of course, that *they don’t exit with a non-zero > status if everything went well.*" > > It seems that if an error occurs, the script have to exit with non-zero > status and later in paragraph, if all went well, the script has to exit > with non-zero status. > > How do i have understand that ? > > My opinion is that if everything went well, the exit status has to be > zero other else a non-zero status ?
Basic shell exit code convention may be non-intuitive. non-zero if ERROR zero if success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ true ; echo $? 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ false ; echo $? 1 Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
