Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] edo.eclass: enhace edob for usage with nosiy commands

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> writes:

> The motivation for this change is to allow edob to be used with noisy
> commands, i.e., commands that produce a lot of output, in cases where
> the output is in general not of interest. However, if the command
> fails, the output should be shown and appear in build.log.
>
> We do this by simply redirecting the output to a file in $T, and show
> this file if the command returned a non-zero exit status.
>
> We already have a few cases in ::gentoo where such output is simply
> redirected to /dev/null, hindering post-mortem analysis. Those could
> be converted to edob with its new behavior.
>
> PR at https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/36117
>

LGTM. I agree there's value in it.

> Florian Schmaus (2):
>   edo.eclass: enhace edob for usage with nosiy commands

s/nosiy/noisy/

>   eftmutil-sys: use edob
>
>  eclass/edo.eclass            | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  eclass/texlive-common.eclass |  8 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)