Installing with the Packages plugin "succeeds" when Yum can't find the package

[David Strauss <[email protected]…>]

If a repository is specified in Packages/config.xml but not in /etc/yum.repos.d/*, bcfg2 attempts to install the package, reports "success," but the package remains not installed.

(On a minor note, the message reporting success misspells "succeeded.")

[David Strauss <…>]

Yum seems to return zero when an invalid package is specified. Yum considers a zero return value to mean something akin to "operating as designed."

[solj]

Replying to David Strauss <[email protected]…>:

(On a minor note, the message reporting success misspells "succeeded.")

Fixed this issue in [78aa59d824454beacf68e3fc6914b39153372cc4] (SVN r5431).

[desai]

Yeah, this is an "interesting" behavior based on yum operating as intended. Lord knows what it means when it returns rc != 0. The intermediate success reported is largely a cosmetic issue. We pull up to date information about the database after each package tool execution pass, so the client should detect the current state properly regardless of this behavior.

If the client doesn't report the correct state for any package entries, open a new ticket on that. That behavior would definitely be a bug.