Bug#586549: mktexlsr does not fail on intermittent errors

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 10.08.10 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
>> On Di, 10 Aug 2010, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>
> Hi Norbert,
>
> This is about "set -e" in basic scripts of TL.
>
>> > However I'm missing the "set -e" in the scripts.
>> > 
>> > Ahh, you replaced the this morning. Out of luck...
>> 
>> Yes, I want to push the changes to unstable/testing and set -e wchange
>> will not pass release manager ...
>> 
> I think *now* is a good time to introduce "set -e" and break TeX
> Live in Debian. ;-)

I agree.  There's already a patch in svn, which seems to work most of
the time.

However, there is one flaw in it that I just noticed:  At least
texconfig has lots of constructs like

do_something
if test $? != 0; then
   echo $errormessage
   exit 1
fi

Of course the error message will never be shown this way.  So quite some
more stuff to patch.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)