Re: Packaging something with a PostgreSQL database.
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:45:43AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman
>
> | On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:01:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> |
> | > * Gaetano Paolone
> | > mkdir -p $TMPDIR || exit 1, I presume?
> |
> | Or, uncomment "set -e" and guard whichever commands (presumably few) should
> | be allowed to fail.
>
> Actually, neither your nor my suggestion will work. mkdir -p doesn't
> fail if the directory already exists, so you probably want something
> like
But it can fail for other reasons, and if it does fail, the script should
abort. Is there some reason that it _should_ fail if the directory already
exists? Normally, that is not an error condition.
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- mdz
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