[Rpm-maint] [Suse patch] Verbose lstat failure message in verification

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 18:06 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > It would make sense to add the extra info only if errno != ENOENT.
> 
> Yup. I'm just still wondering if appending the error after the filename is 
> a good idea. Visually it's quite nice the way that way, I'm just worried 
> about scripts not expecting that. OTOH it's quite possible I simply worry 
> too much :)

If scripts are expecting things based on the output of rpm -V, they've
already lost a few times in the past iirc.  Of course, my memory is too
fuzzy to remember the exact circumstances

Jeremy