Laurent Guignard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
Yes. > and later in paragraph, if all went well, the script has to exit > with non-zero status. No, you've flipped a boolean somewhere :-) It says exactly the opposite: it is important that the script *not* exit with a non-zero status if all went well. > How do i have understand that ? Perhaps the double negatives are confusing you. > My opinion is that if everything went well, the exit status has to > be zero other else a non-zero status ? Yes, that's the meaning of the passage you quoted. -- \ “I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any | `\ view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and | _o__) opposite view.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
