#9811: sage exits with 0, even if it is unable to install a package.
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   Reporter:  drkirkby  |       Owner:  GeorgSWeber
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new        
   Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  sage-4.6   
  Component:  build     |    Keywords:             
     Author:            |    Upstream:  N/A        
   Reviewer:            |      Merged:             
Work_issues:            |  
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 I wanted to do some testing of Sage in a loop and would check the return
 code to see if what I used worked or not. But this is impossible, as Sage
 appears to exit with 0, even if it should not have. In the example below,
 I try to install a non-existent package using Sage. The return code in a
 case like this should be non-zero, but it is not.

 {{{
 drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.5.2$ ./sage -f some-non-existant-package
 Force installing some-non-existant-package
 Calling sage-spkg on some-non-existant-package
 Warning: Attempted to overwrite SAGE_ROOT environment variable
 Building Sage on Solaris in 64-bit mode
 Creating SAGE_LOCAL/lib/sage-64.txt since it does not exist
 Detected SAGE64 flag
 Building Sage on Solaris in 64-bit mode
 some-non-existant-package
 Machine:
 SunOS hawk 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc
 Deleting directories from past builds of previous/current versions of
 some-non-existant-package
 /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.2/local/bin/sage-spkg: file some-non-
 existant-package does not exist
 Attempting to download it.
 http://www.sagemath.org//packages/optional/some-non-existant-package.spkg
 --> some-non-existant-package.spkg
 [ ]
 http://www.sagemath.org//packages/standard/some-non-existant-package.spkg
 --> some-non-existant-package.spkg
 [ ]
 http://www.sagemath.org//packages/experimental/some-non-existant-
 package.spkg --> some-non-existant-package.spkg
 [ ]
 http://www.sagemath.org//packages/archive/some-non-existant-package.spkg
 --> some-non-existant-package.spkg
 [ ]
 **********************************************************************
 * Unable to download some-non-existant-package
 * Please see http://www.sagemath.org//packages for a list of valid
 * packages or check the package name.
 **********************************************************************
 sage: Failed to download package some-non-existant-package from
 http://www.sagemath.org/
 drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.5.2$ $?
 bash: 0: command not found
 drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.5.2$
 }}}

 In contrast, if I try this with a well written command like {{{ls}}}

 {{{
 drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.5.2$ ls some-non-existant-package
 some-non-existant-package: No such file or directory
 drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.5.2$ $?
 bash: 2: command not found
 }}}

 the exit code is non-zero - in this case 2.

 Also on a similar theme is #9799, showing that {{{make}}} can exit with
 the wrong code too.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9811>
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Sage: Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, 
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