Bug 459296 – devmanual ebuild-writing/error-handling outdated

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Vicente Olivert Riera (RETIRED) 2013-02-26 11:52:54 UTC]

The current documentation says:

"Some portage-provided functions will automatically die upon failure. Others will not. It is for example safe to omit the || die after a call to epatch, but not emake. The reason is that external binaries are not able to call die that is a bash function. You can see what commands are external binaries with ls /usr/lib*/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers."

But for EAPI>=4 the ebuild-helpers don't need to be followed by "|| die", so this documentation needs to be updated.

[Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-02-26 13:05:27 UTC]

It is already listed here

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/eapi/index.html

But I guess we can do a cross-reference

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-05-10 21:43:07 UTC]

*** Bug 468926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-05-10 22:57:29 UTC]

I pushed the following fix

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/devmanual.git;a=commit;h=ce65c40e89184b7d17d051e0ba58ffdff705344c