Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

[Dan Armak]

On Friday 29 July 2005 16:57, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 15:56, Dan Armak wrote:
> > base.eclass (which inherited by many other eclasses) has an src_unpack
> > supporting patching from patchfiles listed in $PATCHES. However, today,
> > if patching fails the process doesn't abort.
>
> Why can't we just use epatch?
We can. It's just that base.eclass existed long before epatch, so it doesn't 
use it :-)

Anyway, the effective change would be to die if patching fails (and support 
patchlevels != 0), so my orig question stands.

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