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On 9/20/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 20 September 2007 19:54:16 Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > > econf has default "econf failed" die message. |
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> > > The following would be sufficient: |
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> > > econf \ |
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> > > --localstatedir=/var \ |
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> > > --sysconfdir=/etc/csync2 |
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> > Is that so ... when did that appear? Does it happen for all of the |
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> > package managers? Which functions do this? Where is it documented? |
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> The currect PMS draft documents it (for econf only). All three package |
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> managers conform to it. |
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As you seem to know, PMS is still a draft and as such can't be |
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considered a valid reference document yet. The econf function is |
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indeed the only one that is officially documented as aborting |
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automatically via die(). You can find this in our Gentoo Development |
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Guide available at devmanual.gentoo.org. |
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In any case it is considered good practice to always add '|| |
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die("message")' after all helper functions. The reason is you can't |
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(or shouldn't) rely on any of them dying properly now or in the |
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future. Plus adding a specific message helps debugging. |
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And about the existence of other package managers, yes, I've heard |
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that rumor too. I've even heard that they may work, but I can't |
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confirm. |
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Denis. |
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