This was broken in commit 882e707e40bbade0111cf3bdedbdac4d4b70453b, which changed 'plain()' messages to go to stdout, which was then captured as the download client in question: cmdline=("Aborting..."). The result was a very confusing error message e.g. /usr/share/makepkg/source/file.sh: line 72: $'\E[1m': command not found or with makepkg --nocolor: /usr/share/makepkg/source/file.sh: line 72: Aborting...: command not found Solve this on two levels: - redirect this error() continuation to stderr so the user sees it. - catch erroring returns in get_downloadclient and propagate them bash 4.4 can use wait $! to retrieve the return value of an asynchronous subshell such as <(...), which means, now we target that as our minimum, we can sanely handle errors in such functions. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> --- Actually, maybe every use of plain() needs to do this. Or else make plain() do this by default. But it's technically used to "continue the previous message", and there's no guarantee it merits going to stderr, even though every time we use plain(), it does. What to do... scripts/libmakepkg/source/file.sh.in | 1 + scripts/libmakepkg/util/source.sh.in | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/libmakepkg/source/file.sh.in b/scripts/libmakepkg/source/file.sh.in index 819320c2..28f373fb 100644 --- a/scripts/libmakepkg/source/file.sh.in +++ b/scripts/libmakepkg/source/file.sh.in @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ download_file() { # find the client we should use for this URL local -a cmdline IFS=' ' read -a cmdline < <(get_downloadclient "$proto") + wait $! || exit (( ${#cmdline[@]} )) || exit local filename=$(get_filename "$netfile") diff --git a/scripts/libmakepkg/util/source.sh.in b/scripts/libmakepkg/util/source.sh.in index e0490661..1bf5b814 100644 --- a/scripts/libmakepkg/util/source.sh.in +++ b/scripts/libmakepkg/util/source.sh.in @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ get_downloadclient() { if [[ ! -x $program ]]; then local baseprog="${program##*/}" error "$(gettext "The download program %s is not installed.")" "$baseprog" - plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")" + plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")" >&2 exit 1 # $E_MISSING_PROGRAM fi -- 2.26.2