Re: [ptxdist] How to fail a ipkg post install?

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 01:25:42PM +0000, Alan Martinović wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm having problems identifying how  to successfully fail an install of a custom package in the postinst script.
> 
> I have a dummy postinst script that exits with non zero.
> I would expect that, given that there was an error in the postinst script ipkg would not consider the installation a success.
> However I'm experiencing different behavior.
> 
> Here is the example output:
> postinst script returned status 2
> ERROR: mypackage.postinst returned 2
> Successfully terminated.
> mypackage.ipk installed OK
> 
> Also, the package version gets updated in ipkg list.
> I've tried return codes -1, 2 and 1.
> 
> What is the correct way of preventing the package from being installed if postinst fails?

You are you talking about installing a single package on a running system,
right? Are you using opkg or ipkg? You might try opkg if you're currently
using ipkg.

Michael

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