On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:02:32PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Thursday, 21 December 2006 at 09:06, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Hi,
Do the GuideLines/Does the FPC have an opinion on rpms intentionally printing out textual messages during installs?
At least, I could not find a corresponding paragraph in the GuideLines.
Background: tripwire's spec (Currently under review) contains this:
%post ... # Print getting started help message if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then echo To configure tripwire, read: %_docdir/%{name}-%{version}/README.Fedora fi
I don't have a strong opinion on this and actually am ambivalent.
On one hand, such messages can be helpful to users.
The same is true of about every daemon in Fedora, e.g. installing a server would spill your screen with several dozens of hints of you needing to configure web, nfs, ftp etc. services. :)
The nose would drown real errors from the rpm transaction.
On the other hand, in general, rpm-installs should be silent as much as possible.
Personally I'm against any install-time messages from rpm. If there are any, they should indicate a warning or an error. I was going to ask the submitter to remove this.
I agree with Rathann: rpm output has been assumed to be silent if everything is all right since its very beginning. Perhaps it's even documented in maximum rpm or rpm's source code.
Anyway a strong -1 to allowing any non-error/warning output.