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From: Jaco Kroon <jaco@××××××.za>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: ignore missing directory in preinst
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:26:11
Message-Id: a4d27cb4-e8d4-0c22-3c05-13ef26225810@uls.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: ignore missing directory in preinst by Mike Gilbert
1 Hi,
2
3 On 2019/08/15 16:47, Mike Gilbert wrote:
4
5 > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:33 AM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
6 >> On 8/15/19 3:19 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
7 >>> I don't think that's a sane situation, so maybe the eclass should just
8 >>> die here? (Basically, there are two possibilities: Either, things will
9 >>> break if the dir is missing, then dying might be the best option.
10 >>> Or, everything works without the dir, then the ebuild should set it to
11 >>> /dev/null, in the first place.)
12 >>>
13 >> That's my feeling as well. In 100% of cases so far, this has been a
14 >> useful QA tool. Can we wait until that's not the case to change it?
15 > I think an explicit die with a useful error message for the user would
16 > be better than the status-quo.
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18 I agree.
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21 Kind Regards,
22 Jaco