Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: what happened to /etc/init.d/hal{d,daemon,whatever} script ?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:22:27
Message-Id: 49516479.5040506@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: what happened to /etc/init.d/hal{d,daemon,whatever} script ? by Doug Goldstein
1 Doug Goldstein wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> Branko Badrljica wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> Since I might not be the only tinkerer on Gentoo to try stuff like that
6 >>> and since it took me a day to find this, maybe it wouldn't hurt to check
7 >>> for this kind of thing in portage ?
8 >>> At the very least failed cp should stop emerge...
9 >>>
10 >>>
11 >>>
12 >>
13 >> Well there isn't a single place to add die statements. The important
14 >> thing is for ebuild developers to remember to add || die to all stuff
15 >> that could potentially fail. If you find the cp in question that failed
16 >> for you, the right place to file bugs is https://bugs.gentoo.org.
17 >>
18 >> Regards,
19 >> Petteri
20 >>
21 >>
22 > Looks like people have been truly over-zealous when removing "die"
23 > statements from ebuilds lately. I've added back to HAL an assortment of
24 > "die" statements.
25 >
26 > I hope this hasn't happened in too many other ebuilds.
27 >
28
29 Who has been removing die statements? Is this a suggested way of action
30 somewhere by someone?
31
32 Regards,
33 Petteri

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