On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:57:08AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:39:37AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>
> > > Besides, I'm not sure if I really want to have "install -n[v]" be
> > > parseable.
> >
> > Huh?
>
> If "pkg install -n" were to tell you that a reboot would be required (as
> Venky had mentioned earlier), then in order to use that in a script, the
> output of the command would need to be Committed, hence parseable in some
> form. If all you care about is human-readable messaging, then I don't see
> any problems with it.
A well-defined exit status code will do.
pkg install -n foo > $tmpfile 2>&1
case $? in
# Done!
0) : ;;
# Reboot required, tell the user/do whatever, try again
$IPS_REBOOT_REQD) ...;;
# Oops, something went wrong, show the user pkg's output, ...
*) ...;;
esac
Nico
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