Re: [gentoo-dev] Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

[Robert Buchholz]

On Sunday, 5. October 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robert Buchholz wrote:
> >> >
> >> > It's not. If you want to have default DOCS then you should loop
> >> > through the items and check with [[ -e ]] before trying to
> >> > install them.
> >>
> >> So, maybe just do a 'dodoc "${DOCS}"' and omit the die? Then it won't
> >> fail but the warning message would be preserved.
> >
> > I understood Petteri's comment to be related to the default case
> > (i.e. the else-branch), and I have to agree there: Ebuilds that do
> > not override src_install should not emit a warning when some
> > ChangeLog file is missing that the ebuild never specified to
> > install.
>
> The default would be an empty DOCS variable, or did I miss something?

Correct.

> So if the ebuild includes non-existing files in DOCS, then why would
> you want to suppress the warnings?

I don't. My point was that the default action on an empty DOCS variable is 
to "dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README", and this should not emit 
warnings, because it is merely a heuristic.

To be clearer:
         else
-                # No die here because we don't know if any of these exist
-                dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README
+                for x in AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README; do
+                        if [ -e ${x} ]; then
+                                dodoc ${x} || die "dodoc ${x} failed"
+                        fi
+                done
         fi


Robert