On 06/12/2020 14:32, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > 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 > . That's precisely the idea- from previous discussion with a couple of people there didn't seem to be an easy (programmatic) way to figure out whether syspatch had done anything or not.
Doing this would be a bit of a blunt way of handling things, and perhaps it would be better gated behind a flag, but is there a better way to make a scripted update work automatically (including rebooting as necessary)? Thanks, S
