Re: [pacman-dev] Roadmap for 3.1

Dan McGee wrote:

Comments and some of my own stuff here.

On 3/28/07, Andrew Fyfe wrote:

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Cleanup scripts/* - move msg* error warning in_array check_* out of makepkg so all scripts can make use of them. - use tput for coloured output - move BUILDSCRIPT PKGEXT DB_COMPRESSION into makepkg.conf - gettext support (Giovanni Scafora has done some work on this)

Yes, I like most of this, and it would be good to see in 3.1. Especially if patches start rolling in.

Now that I've got the hang of git, I start knocking up some patches for these.

* Standardized exit codes for pacman and makepkg. These should be set, documented, and utilized in scripts that look at output codes. I've made a start on makepkg. I'm aiming to replace all the exit's with $E_* so it's easier to work out why makepkg is exiting. So far I've got 0 = E_OK - No error. 1 = E_UNKNOWN - This is should be avoided where ever possible. 2 = E_BUILD_FAILED - build() failed for some reason. 4 = E_USER_ABORT - do I need to explain :p 8 = E_MISSING_PROGRAM - if wget|fakeroot|... are missing. 16 = E_CONFIG_ERROR - something wrong (or missing) with makepkg.conf. 32 = E_BUILDSCRIPT_ERROR - something wrong (or missing) with PKGBUILD.

Andrew