[pacman-dev] makepkg -i should fail when packages cannot be installed

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would file a bug report but somehow...
>
> It seems makepkg -i just throws a warning if it cannot install the package 
> after build. I would prefer if it would at least return something different 
> from 0.
>
> My scripts assume that everything is fine if makepkg retuns 0 and an inter 
> package file conflict wasn't noticed due to the behaviour that makepkg did 
> return 0 even if something went wrong.
>   

Hmmm...  there was a bug report that was the opposite.

The reasoning here is that makepkg did not fail, rather pacman failed to 
install the successfully built package.  The same occurs when pacman 
fails to remove deps as asked by makepkg.

Allan




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