[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: remove .part file after a failed download

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 16:18:06 EDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
> Ray Rashif wrote:
>> 2009/10/22 Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
>>>> -       eval $dlcmd || return $?
>>>> +       eval $dlcmd
>>>> +       local ret=$?
>>>> +       if [ $ret -gt 0 ]; then
>>>> +               [ ! -s "$dlfile" ] && rm -f -- "$dlfile"
>>>> +               return $ret
>>>> +       fi
>>>>
>>> I don't understand, I cannot get it to work.
>>> It looks like when "eval $dlcmd" fails, nothing else is run in that
>>> function.
>>>
>>> I added a echo statement, but I still only see that message at the end :
>>> ==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...
>>>
>>
>> looks like there is no return to handle (fail but no reason given), so
>> makepkg traps that.
>
> That's odd. I patched makepkg from pacman 3.3.2 to test the patch, so I did not notice this.
> But this bug (or is it intended?) already exists in master. You can remove the "|| return $?" part from the eval line, add echos and it fails just before the second echo.
>
>

The issue reminded me of the following patch :
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=545eac145d77c66714ec88a88056ac3827c9b240

But it seems errexit is only enabled for build and package functions,
so this should not affect sources download.


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