Subject: bug#45279: [core-updates] copy-recursively does not throw an error on missing directory

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 09:25:50 -0400

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> On the 'core-updates' branch, using copy-recursively on a nonexistent
>> directory does not cause a build failure.  Instead an error is printed
>> and the script continues:
>>
>>   (copy-recursively "doesnotexist" output)
>>   [...]
>>   starting phase `install'
>>   i/o error: doesnotexist: No such file or directory
>>   phase `install' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>>
>> This is on cc6cb6e80a42355147809b4830053a34d1563994.
>
> I think it’s always been this way.  Do you think we should change it?

Just stumbled on that.  I think we should change it, yes.  Maybe we need
a core-updates-next branch, uh.

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Thanks,
Maxim