Re: [gentoo-dev] new package notification

[Marko Mikulicic]

mikepolniak wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:50:41 +0200
> Marko Mikulicic <marko@××××.org> wrote:
>
>

>
> Since /usr/portage/incoming/apmd/  does not have an ebuild file the script
> fails with:
>
> ls: /usr/portage/incoming/apmd/*.ebuild: No such file or directory
> ./nuebuild: .: filename argument required

the script should go on.
It will report the error but it should go on.
I know it's annoying, but I don't know if its worth
complicating the script just for handling a exceptional condition
which should not be there. (If the program doesn't abort)
  However I have the patch:

<snip>
** /usr/local/bin/emerge-rsync 2002-07-26 22:47:41.000000000 +0200
--- emerge-rsync        2002-07-27 16:00:39.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 34,40 ****
    echo
    echo New ebuilds:
    for i in $(cat $NEW); do
!   . $(ls $i/*.ebuild --sort=time | head -n 1)
     echo -e $GREEN${i##$PORTDIR/}$NORMAL: $DESCRIPTION
    done
   fi
--- 34,42 ----
    echo
    echo New ebuilds:
    for i in $(cat $NEW); do
!   DESCRIPTION=""
!   EBUILD=$(ls $i/*.ebuild --sort=time  2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
!   [ -z "$EBUILD" ] || . $EBUILD
     echo -e $GREEN${i##$PORTDIR/}$NORMAL: $DESCRIPTION
    done
   fi
</snip>

But I would like to hear opinions.
Is it normal to have directories with no *.emerge?
Should it report an error message or simply discard the description
(as the patch does) ?
Clean is nice, but real world is ugly :-)

Marko