[PATCH] inform user if any postinstall script failed to run

[Jon TURNEY]

On 28/08/2010 17:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:30:54PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 27/08/2010 19:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:15:38PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> On 29/07/2010 17:28, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>>> On 28/07/2010 15:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:25:17PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>>>>> Anyhow, here's another attempt, which unfortunately changes rather more than I
>>>>>>> wanted to. It adds a new page, which is displayed if any script failed, and
>>>>>>> reports which packages and scripts failed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is great. Please check in (with a ChangeLog of course).
>>>>
>>>> Due to the way I tested this change, I'd failed to notice that when a package
>>>> is installed with a failing postinstall script, this will list the failing
>>>> script twice, once with the package name and once as 'no package'.
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a patch to remedy that.
>>>
>>> Do we realy need a separate for loop for this?  Couldn't we just piggy
>>> back on the previous for loop?
>>
>> Sure.  I'm not sure if it's any more elegant, though :-)
>
> Yow.  No, it isn't.  I didn't think you'd need to modify RunScript to
> deal with the behavior.
>
> So, nevermind.  The previous solution looks simpler.  Please go ahead
> with that one.

Okay, done