Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge harmless buglet?

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:15:50PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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> anyone have thoughts on how to handle this as intended ?
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> the ugly hack that i produced (as can be found in unpack_makeself() in
> eutils.eclass) is something like this:
> out="`bzcat t.tbz2 | tar xf - 2>1`"
> [ ! -z "${out}" ] && echo "oh no i failed"

Also a bit ugly, but one could do:

{ bzcat t.tbz2 || echo "bzcat failed" >&2; } | tar xf - || echo "tar failed" >&2

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