On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 02:19:05PM +0000, SW wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been looking to have syspatch give me a quick indication of whether
> a reboot is likely to be required. As a quick and dirty check, I've just
> been treating "Were patches applied?" as the indicator.
>
> The following diff will cause syspatch to exit when applying patches
> with status code 0 only if patches were actually applied.
>
> My biggest concern is that it does cause a change in behaviour, so
> perhaps this either needs making into an option or a different approach
> entirely?
>
> --- syspatch Sun Dec 6 14:11:12 2020
> +++ syspatch Sun Dec 6 14:10:23 2020
> @@ -323,3 +323,9 @@ if ((OPTIND == 1)); then
> _PATCH_APPLIED=true
> done
> fi
> +
> +if [ "$_PATCH_APPLIED" = "true" ]; then
> + exit 0
> +else
> + exit 1
> +fi
>
> Thanks,
> S
>
I don't this is correct since it maks syspatch exit 1 on "no patches applied".
-Otto
