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Bug 224279 - why don't dodoc/dobin/dosym/etc die on error?
Summary: why don't dodoc/dobin/dosym/etc die on error?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 138792
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Depends on: 223491 224277
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Reported: 2008-05-30 23:15 UTC by Colin Macdonald
Modified: 2008-09-09 14:23 UTC (History)
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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 ***