Bug#586549: mktexlsr does not fail on intermittent errors

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Karl,

over here on Debian we have a discussion concerning adding
	set -e
to fmtutil, mktexlsr, updmap etc.

It seems that at least for mktexlsr and fmtutil that is deffinitely
possible:

On Sa, 10 Jul 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > If somebody can give me a few usage scenarios for fmtutil (i.e.,
> > > proper command lines) I'll happily try out that as well,
> > > 
> > "fmtutil-sys --all" (run as root) regenerates all format files,
> > "fmtutil-sys --byfmt $format" just (re-)generates a single format
> > file, where $format is tex, amstex, pdftex etc. Also you should try
> > running "fmtutil -all" "fmtutil --byfmt $format", they generate
> > user-specific formats.
> > 
> 
> Done for all of the above, no errors.
> 
> > > but at the moment this doesn't seem to be as painful as expected!?
> > > 
> > Maybe we should simply introduce these -e switches and then wait for
> > the side effects. Norbert, Frank?
> > 
> 
> I really wouldn't claim to have done exhaustive testing, but I'd hope that I
> have at least covered the very basic use cases, and none of them causes an
> error. Therefore I'd also opt for adding set -e to the scripts and see what
> happens.

What is your opinion on that? Do you know of any reason why set -e was
not used from the very begining?

For full emails text, please see bugs.debian.org/586549

Best

Norbert