information about news-items and configuration-files missing when using --continue-on-failure

[ddanier]

If paludis finishes successful it displays information like this:

 * Checking whether the GNU info directory needs updating...
 * No updates needed

 * No unread news items found

 * Searching for configuration files requiring action...
 * Found 12 files in /etc
 * Found files in 1 directories
 * Your action is required

Now if --continue-on-failure is active paludis will only display that some packages failed and the resume-command. As most of the time only minor packages fail, that might be written by the user (on my machine most of the time my ebuilds fail, not ebuilds out of the portage-tree), I think this information should be displayed even if some packages failed. Perhaps even when --continue-on-failure is not used, as the packages already installed until reaching the broken ebuild might have provided updated config-files and as paludis merges packages in the right order all these packages should be able to run using the new configuration.

Anyway it would save me some headache after I fixed my ebuilds next time they get broken. Now I have to update tons of configs. ;-)

Btw. I don't know, if skipping this "GNU info directory"-stuff may cause problems. I just missed the infos.

Tested with "--continue-on-failure if-independent", "if-satisfied" is untested, but should behave similar I think.

I first posted here this here (for reference):
 http://lists.pioto.org/pipermail/paludis-user/2007-November/000112.html

[anonymous]

Milestone Before 0.26.0 deleted

[ciaranm]

r4502 fixes this.