On Nov 22, 2007 3:12 PM, Travis Willard wrote:

On Nov 22, 2007 2:59 PM, fancris3 wrote:

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[~]:: pacman -Ss|wc -l 9521 this its a feature or a bug?

What, that pacman -Ss returns every package? I'm pretty sure that's by design, so it's not a bug.

Yeah, I'm not sure what you were trying to do here at all- get a line count of packages with their descriptions? Seems like a weird statistic to me... -Dan

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:51:37 +0200, Xavier wrote:

I see mainly two possible behaviors for "pacman -Ss" : 1) list everything 2) fail and print a help message asking for an argument I don't think the first one is problematic, but maybe he was expecting the second one.

yes,i expect the second because of pacman.pot : #: src/pacman/pacman.c:562 msgid "no targets specified (use -h for help)\n"

The "return 1" isn't skipped as it was pretented? That would be a bit odd.

here its PKGBUILD pkgname=bsc-beta pkgver=4.0.05 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Two panels file mamager" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.beesoft.org/bsc.html" license="GPL" depends=('qt4') source=(http://www.beesoft.org/download/bsc_${pkgver}.beta_src.tar.bz2) md5sums=() build() { cd $startdir/src/bsc /usr/bin/qmake make PREFIX=/opt/bsc make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/opt/bsc install || return 1 } I thing its bad to hide a error by default,maybe its useful a options like options=(emptypkg)

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:12:41PM -0500, Travis Willard wrote:

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i have made a build for bsc-beta,i have a line:

make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/opt/bsc install || return 1

variable its wrong,makepkg make empty pkg and skip "return 1"

make: Nothing to be done for `install'. ==> Tidying install... -> Removing info/doc files... -> Compressing man pages... -> Stripping debugging symbols from binarie ==> Creating package... -> Generating .FILELIST file... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: bsc-beta (Thu Nov 22 19:

in the stable version this thing is working correct and return an error

==> Removing info/doc files... ==> Compressing man pages... ==> Stripping debugging symbols from libraries... ==> Stripping symbols from binaries... ==> Generating .FILELIST file... tar: *: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ==> Generating .PKGINFO file... ==> Compressing package... tar: *: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ==> ERROR: Failed to create package file.

That's a bugfix - the previous version is the buggy one. A packager should be able to build empty packages if they want. It's up to you to ensure your package was built correctly.

I'm confused here. So the error comes from tar, and not from "make install", right? The "return 1" isn't skipped as it was pretented? That would be a bit odd.