Simon Stelling writes in Bug 121317:

currently, the do* scripts don't exit with a non-zero status when a critical
command fails, except if it is the last one.  install as much as possible, then exit appropriately.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=2650

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/dodir b/bin/dodir
index 88b201ad7..ced7ff70f 100755
--- a/bin/dodir
+++ b/bin/dodir
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/bin/dodir,v 1.5 2004/10/04 13:56:50 vapier Exp $
 
+ret=0
+
 for x in "$@" ; do
 	install -d ${DIROPTIONS} "${D}${x}"
+	((ret+=$?))
 done
+
+exit ${ret}