Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 8/8] virtualx.eclass: Simplify API into single virtx()

[Davide Pesavento]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Justin Lecher (jlec) <jlec@g.o> wrote:
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> On 28/11/15 16:28, Davide Pesavento wrote:
>>> else -               nonfatal ${VIRTUALX_COMMAND} "$@" +
>>> nonfatal "$@"
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>> Please take the opportunity to clean this up, possibly only in
>> EAPI=6 if you don't want to risk breaking existing ebuilds. See bug
>> 517976 for details.
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>>> retval=$?
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> The return value is recorded and gets evaluated correctly.
>
> src_test() {
>         virtx false
> }
>
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> Am I missing something?

The scenario of bug 517976 is different. I think a minimized test case
is the following (untested):

foo() {
    die "meh"
    return 0
}

src_test() {
    virtx foo
}