Make a bunch of stuff in pub synchronous.

utils/pub/system_cache.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 library system_cache;
 
 import 'dart:io';
 import 'dart:async';
 
 import 'git_source.dart';
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     _pendingInstalls[id] = future;
     return future;
   }
 
   /// Create a new temporary directory within the system cache. The system
   /// cache maintains its own temporary directory that it uses to stage
   /// packages into while installing. It uses this instead of the OS's system
   /// temp directory to ensure that it's on the same volume as the pub system
   /// cache so that it can move the directory from it.
   Future<Directory> createTempDir() {
-    return ensureDir(tempDir).then((temp) {
+    // Make sure all errors propagate through future.
+    return defer(() {
+      var temp = ensureDir(tempDir);
       return io.createTempDir(join(temp, 'dir'));
     });
   }
 
   /// Delete's the system cache's internal temp directory.
   Future deleteTempDir() {
     log.fine('Clean up system cache temp directory $tempDir.');
-    return dirExists(tempDir).then((exists) {
-      if (!exists) return;
+    // Make sure all errors propagate through future.
+    return defer(() {
+      if (!dirExists(tempDir)) return;
       return deleteDir(tempDir);
     });
   }
 }