[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] scripts/feeds: Return non-zero return code if updating of a feed failed.

[Hannu Nyman]

John Crispin wrote:
 > also i am not sure if we want the script to abort if one of the feeds has 
failed

The typical scenario for somone building regularly private builds is that 
updating fails due to conflicting local modifications. The user might have a 
"daily" build script that updates the sources and then continues with the 
build. Having the build script to stop after a feed update failure is 
practical. You generally want to fix the conflict instead of just charging 
blindly ahead and building from partially stale sources.

For example, my build environment contains this proposed patch and the daily 
build script includes check for update failure:
   ./scripts/feeds update -a
   [ "$?" -ne 0 ] && echo "Updating the feeds failed." && exit 1


If you feel that the "break after one feed fails to update" is to strict, one 
solution could be to continue updating other feeds despite the failure, but 
still return the error code in any case just to indicate that one feed 
failed. That would enable the user to select, if he wants to check for that 
error code.

Currently the error code is lost. There is no feedback of a possible failure.
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