On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 09:03:59AM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: > There's no mention of what syspatch(8) returns, in the manpage. > > I can prove quickly enough that it exits(0) when there's nothing to do, but > I'm more interested in knowing (for automation purposes) what the return > values are in other circumstances, and all my systems are already up to > date. Before standing up yet another system, I figured I'd ask here. > > I can think of four scenarios syspatch(8) perhaps ought to distinguish, at > least I'm interested in these 4 outcomes: > 1. nothing to do > 2. patches waiting, but didn't do anthing > 3. patches applied > 4. something went wrong > > Can I reliably tell based on $? or do I have to parse the output?
Most likely parse, yes. "patches waiting, but didn't do anything" might be interesting (i.e patches are available); dunno... -- Antoine
