Re: [pca] pca.sh exit code status

[Martin Paul]

Chris Gibson wrote:

Should it not show an exit of 1? Also I would I exclude the exit status
of 3, 4 and 5 as we are patching ABE's and don't care about the reboot
notification.


I know, PCA's exit values are from perfect. The problem is that the requirements 
of the users are quite different, and it seems to be impossible to express all 
the demanded information in a single numerical value. So as I couldn't find a 
solution which would please everybody, I didn't put much effort into this.


In your case the best alternative would be to look for the "Download Summary" 
and "Install Summary" lines in PCA's output in your wrapper script. There you 
can get detailed information about all patch downloads and installations, 
separated into successful/skipped/failed patches.


Hope that helps,

Martin.

Re: [pca] pca.sh exit code status

[Chris Gibson]

On 02/09/2012 03:50 AM, Martin Paul wrote:
> Chris Gibson wrote:
>> Should it not show an exit of 1? Also I would I exclude the exit status
>> of 3, 4 and 5 as we are patching ABE's and don't care about the reboot
>> notification.
>
> I know, PCA's exit values are from perfect. The problem is that the
> requirements of the users are quite different, and it seems to be
> impossible to express all the demanded information in a single
> numerical value. So as I couldn't find a solution which would please
> everybody, I didn't put much effort into this.
>
> In your case the best alternative would be to look for the "Download
> Summary" and "Install Summary" lines in PCA's output in your wrapper
> script. There you can get detailed information about all patch
> downloads and installations, separated into successful/skipped/failed
> patches.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Martin.
>

I added these 2 lines at line 338 in the current version. It exits with
1 if failed to download or failed to install is greater than 0. Someone
else might find this useful.

   if ($c{faildl} > 0 || $c{failinst} > 0){
$xval || ($xval=1)}