Bug 224279

Summary:	why don't dodoc/dobin/dosym/etc die on error?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	223491, 224277
Bug Blocks:

Description Colin Macdonald 2008-05-30 23:15:57 UTC

My apologies if this is well-known but I've fixed 2 ebuilds this week that silently failed because dosym or dobin failed and the only sign of failure was buried in the /var/log/portage/foo.log file.

Wouldn't it be better if dobin and friends just died on failure?  Alternatively, the ebuild could specify something like:
  dosym foo bar || die

FWIW: the bugs where #223491, #224277.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-31 16:41:28 UTC

Please discuss this kind of thing on the gentoo-dev@ mailing list. Bugzilla gets kind of messy when it's used as a message board. :)

Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-09 14:23:04 UTC

Reopen, to close properly.

Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-09 14:23:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 138792 ***