[elrepo] nvidia-detect feature enhancement

[Pat Riehecky]

On 02/13/2015 10:32 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 13/02/15 15:39, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>> On 02/13/2015 09:04 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>> The only thing I'm unsure how to handle is nvidia-detect's warning
>>> messages. I don't really want to suppress these by default, but if we
>>> don't then yum will treat them as a list of arguments and try to parse
>>> them (not what we want).
>> Could the warnings be sent to STDERR?  I can send a patch if that sounds
>> viable.
>>
>> Pat
>>
> Thanks Pat.
>
> Yes they could. The only problem I see is STDERR is written to the
> console by default so would still need to be redirected (see my previous
> reply).
>
>

My memory says typically $() and `` don't capture STDERR.

Quick tests seem to support that:

yum install `echo thing >&2`
yum install $(echo thing >&2)

(also, pull request sent for errors to STDERR, but you should probably 
double check it)

Pat

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