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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling unknown commands in an ebuild
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:48:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6FC1C8.70502@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002072124.49047.vapier@gentoo.org>

Le 08/02/2010 03:24, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> if we wanted to specifically target semi-common errors (and i think 'epatch' 
> w/out eutils.eclass falls into this category), then a repoman check would be 
> good.
> 
> it might also be useful to add a default epatch() to the initial env that 
> would be clobbered when the inherit occurred.
> 	epatch() { die "you need to inherit eutils.eclass to use epatch" ; }

+1, that's a very good idea! I've stopped counting how many times that's
happened to me.

I'm sure there are other common mistakes we all do, but this particular
one is a low-hanging fruit.

Cheers,

Rémi



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-08  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07 21:10 [gentoo-dev] Calling unknown commands in an ebuild Stelian Ionescu
2010-02-07 22:19 ` Zac Medico
2010-02-08  0:56   ` Stelian Ionescu
2010-02-08  1:45   ` Tomas Touceda
2010-02-08  2:24   ` Mike Frysinger
2010-02-08  7:48     ` Rémi Cardona [this message]
2010-02-08 10:18     ` Peter Volkov
2010-02-08  2:22 ` Mike Frysinger

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