[oe] postinst jobs and "exit 1"

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:02 +0200, Martin Dietze wrote:
>  lots of packages start their postinst jobs like this:
> 
> | test -z "$D" || exit 1
> 
> When creating firmware images using recent OE recipes (nylon
> distro and mtx-2 hardware), this seems to cause problems,
> either bitbake complains about "exit 1" in the log file when
> doing the rootfs or lots of postinst jobs are not run after
> installing the image. 
> 
> Is the above test deprecated and should be replaced by
> something not exit'ing at all? If yes, who is going to adapt
> all the existing packages still doing this?

Packages do this if the postinst should run on the device and should not
be during do_rootfs. If the postinst can be safely run during postinst,
you wouldn't have a line like this.

Based on that are there any specific examples giving cause for concern?

Regards,

Richard