when a newbie-user follows the installation instructions but forgets to copy over resolv.conf and has a firewall which does not allow rsync to pass, he will run emerge-webrsync, as instructed by the manual. It will not work, of course, as there is no dns server. but the emerge-webrsync will silently fail, not outputting any message and a new user won
when a newbie-user follows the installation instructions but forgets to copy over resolv.conf and has a firewall which does not allow rsync to pass, he will run emerge-webrsync, as instructed by the manual. It will not work, of course, as there is no dns server. but the emerge-webrsync will silently fail, not outputting any message and a new user won´t notice, as he does not know anything about the portage tree. so he will continue with the installation manual, where from now on everything involving emerge will fail. very frustrating. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: install gentoo, forget to copy resolv.conf Expected Results: I suggest motifyfing the emerge-webrsync script somehow to report "hey, no dns you foolish idiot!", I just don´t know how, as I myself am this newbie user...
Discovering that from a script is not particularly easy.
The failure message is the FETCHCOMMAND's business... not portage.
