[aur-general] TU Application / Looking for sponsor

[Peter Lewis]

On Thursday 26 August 2010 at 00:28 Eric Bélanger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 at 14:06 Laurent Carlier wrote:
> >> > Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they
> >> > should be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 &
> >> > missing package() function)
> > 
> > I'm thinking that I missed the message when the "|| return 1" thing was
> > deprecated. Can someone point me to something I can read about the change
> > and what I'm supposed to do instead?
> > 
> > (AFAICT there are a lot of PKGBUILDS around that use it - and I'm pretty
> > sure it used to be encouraged by the packaging guidelines.)
> 
> Since 3.4.0, makepkg automatically aborts when when one command in the
> build or package functions doesn't terminate successfully.  Therefore,
> the "|| return 1" are no longer necessary and can be removed from
> PKGBUILD to tidy them up.  You'll probably get more info in the
> pacman/makepkg ChangeLog.

Thanks Eric - very helpful and sounds like a useful change.

Pete.