[pacman-dev] Questions about stderr/stdout behaviour on failures

Oskar Roesler o.roesler at oscloud.info
Wed Jun 2 08:52:58 UTC 2021


Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2021 03:44:12 CEST schrieb Allan McRae:
> On 28/5/21 10:35 pm, Oskar Roesler via pacman-dev wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> when file conflicts in packages occur,
>> why does the actual conflict get written to stdout and only an
>> non-informative error message to stderr?
>
> My guess is this is pure oversight.  The printf calls need changed to
> fprintf(stderr, ...).
>
> Can you file a bug if you do not want to make the patch yourself?
>
> A
>
>
I'll submit a patch.

Regards,
Oskar


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