On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This problem is somewhat related to the terminal color problem so I apologize if it's already taken care by these patches.
I use rxvt-unicode as my terminal. Since pacman 3.4, when building packages with makechrootpkg, makepkg aborts with the following error: tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode"
This happens because I use a clean chroot in which rxvt-unicode isn't installed so the terminal definition file /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode isn't present. As a workaround, I added a 'TERM=xterm' in the wrapper script I use.
It would be nice if, instead of aborting on unknown terminals, makepkg would fallback to the dumb terminal. The dumb terminal currently doesn's work as I believe it doesn't support colors. This change along with the color patch would make makpkg more robust when handling different and unusual terminals.
Personnally, I will keep my workaround as I like color. ;)
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-June/011263.html
I tested Nezmer's patch and it fix this problem. However, the error message is still printed for each call to tput (maybe it should be sent to /dev/null) but makepkg doen't abort anymore. Eric