528760 – assert function should be described in ebuild.5 man page

Bug 528760 - assert function should be described in ebuild.5 man page

Summary: assert function should be described in ebuild.5 man page

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS, PATCH

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Reported:	2014-11-09 18:12 UTC by Andrew Savchenko
Modified:	2016-02-02 14:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev

2014-11-09 18:12:58 UTC

Hello,

portage provides good function to check errors on pipes: assert.
It is mentioned in the dev manual:
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/error-handling/index.html
but is not mentioned in the man 5 ebuild.
This should be fixed.
Thanks!

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2014-11-09 19:21:40 UTC

I have a patch for this in the following branch:

	https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_528760

I've posted it for review here:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/4761

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2014-11-10 18:35:09 UTC

This is in git now:

https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/7f38c9cbe3ce4a1eb4791b81b1ccd1a2f4eebfd1

Comment 3 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-02-02 14:03:43 UTC

This was released in 2.1.15.