From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:45:23 +0000 (-0800) Subject: dev-manual: Added note about RPM not dealing with post-install X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12a0ee049e453b6d0d2ce2f3fa981d1b6e02bd78;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core-contrib.git dev-manual: Added note about RPM not dealing with post-install Fixes [YOCTO #10351] I added a note to the "Post Installation Scripts" section of the "Writing a New Recipe" section to call out the fact that the RPM package manager will not install packages on the target when any RPM post-install script returns a non-zero exit code when the script is run on the target. (From yocto-docs rev: 8565b0ba874f3357500a91640c0f77077c83b8d6) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 39ce2a2497e..2c95ecbc99e 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -3012,6 +3012,13 @@ If the script succeeds, the package is marked as installed. If the script fails, the package is marked as unpacked and the script is executed when the image boots again. + + Any RPM post-installation script that runs on the target + should return a 0 exit code. + RPM does not allow non-zero exit codes for these scripts, + and the RPM package manager will cause the package to fail + installation on the target. +