https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?17099
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:41 PM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > I'm bad with scripts :) > but this is important to improve them. > Can you open a bug entry so that this discussion is not lost? > > Le 24/11/15 00:25, Dale Henrichs a écrit : > >> I've been using zero-conf scripts to download the pharo vm for a while and >> occasionally the download fails to install the vm in the pharo-vm directory >> .... silently ..... with no clue as to what happened. even worse the exit >> status is zero so the failure isn't noticed until much later on in my >> install when an attempt is made to actually use the vm .... I do know that >> when I see these failures the pharo-vm does get created but is empty ... >> >> I got another failure today and figured that I would dig into this on my >> end to see if I could understand what might be going on .... >> >> The section of the zero-conf script that is suspect is the following: >> >> mkdir $VM_DIR >> $DOWNLOAD_TO$VM_DIR/vm.zip $VM_URL >> >> >> After the $VM_DIR is created (which I know happens), the $DOWNLOAD_TO >> script is run. Recently, I learned that a side effect of using the --silent >> option for curl is that error messages are also suppressed and I see that >> for curl, the `--silent` option is being used: >> >> if [[ `which curl 2> /dev/null` ]]; then >> DOWNLOAD="curl --silent --location --compressed "; >> DOWNLOAD_TO="$DOWNLOAD --output "; >> elif [[ `which wget 2> /dev/null` ]]; then >> DOWNLOAD_TO="wget --quiet --output-document="; >> DOWNLOAD="$DOWNLOAD_TO-"; >> else >> echo "Please install curl or wget on your machine"; >> exit 1 >> fi >> >> >> For curl if you want to turn off the progress meter (a good thing) and >> continue to report errors, you need to use --show-error in conjunction with >> --silent (as described in the man page) >> >> I think the same thing applies to wget, --quiet turns off error messages >> and progress .... you probably should be using --no-verbose to continue to >> get error messages ... >> >> Dale >> >> >> > >
