[gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default

[Stefan Schweizer]

Hi,

This came up in Bug 138792 [dobin etc. should automatically die on failure]
It needs more discussion on the mailing lists.
Some excerpts from the bug: The proposal from Paul Bredbury:
"Hi, I propose that the following ebuild commands themselves *die* on
failure, because the vast majority of the time the emerge might as well be
considered a failure if such commands fail.
dobin, dosbin, doexe"

Jason Stubbs called for consistency .. i.e making doman and dodoc also die
when nothing the file does not exist. A simple workaround in case an ebuild
is broken: [ -f xxx ] && dodoc xxx

SpanKY complained that he cannot set a custom die message then. But this is
not needed here, since every do* command can be clearly identified by the
argument and the directory it will be installed to.
Also as Paul suggested something like that would be possible for a custom
die message:
        if [[ -n "${DIE_MSG}" ]] ; then
                echo "!!! ${DIE_MSG}"
        fi

So, because we want no broken ebuilds and we want consistency I propose to
change this and fix possible problems. They are imo QA problems and should
be fixed.

So what do you think?

- Stefan

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