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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> 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

Right. And since this only really affects non-root usage, anybody relying 
on non-root verification results is already busted.

I'll just apply the patch and stop worrying ;)

 	- Panu -