[pacman-dev] pacman-git releases

[Travis Willard]

On Nov 22, 2007 2:59 PM, fancris3 <fancris3 at aol.com> wrote:
> [~]:: 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.
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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.