Bug 458306

Summary:	revdep-rebuild exit code can indicate success even if there was a failure
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Robert Forsman <gentoo>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Forsman 2013-02-19 15:16:28 UTC

Several packages have post-installation messages of the form

revdep-rebuild --library something-obsolete.so && rm something-obsolete.so

Unfortunately, revdep-rebuild sometimes exits with a success status even when things go horribly wrong.  In my case I was rebuilding packages depending on libgmp.so, one of which is gcc.  When /usr filled up, the rebuild malfunctioned, revdep-rebuild indicated success, and libgmp was deleted, crippling the system compiler and probably several other applications.

To recover I had to cross-compile gcc on another computer and install the resulting binary package.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have an almost-full /usr
2. revdep-rebuild something
3. echo $?
Actual Results:  
revdep-rebuild indicated success even though the ebuild died in the middle.

Expected Results:  
revdep-rebuild should have indicated a failure.

Comment 1 Robert Forsman 2013-02-19 16:13:39 UTC

revdep-rebuild is from gentoolkit-0.3.0.4

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-20 14:27:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> revdep-rebuild is from gentoolkit-0.3.0.4

You may want to upgrade to 0.3.0.7.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 351054 ***