Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 2:52 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> I think a better approach would be to always include $? in die messages
>> in Portage.
>
> It's a nice idea, but will not work in the case where die is not
> called immediately after the failing command.
>
> A couple of possible workarounds that could be used to reset $? before
> calling die:
>
> 1. Exit in a subshell: (exit ${status})
> 2. Return from a function: set_status() { return $1; }; set_status ${status}
>
> In any case, I would like to apply the acct-user.eclass patch soonish
> to help with debugging an error during stage building that releng
> reported to me in IRC. We can revisit changing the die function and
> possibly revert this patch later.

lgtm then