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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 03 September 2009 00:02:03 schrieb Dan McGee:
>> Why use -i at all then? Since you want to check the install, shouldn't
>> that be a seperate step in your script? E.g. Run makepkg, check for a
>> 0 return, then run pacman and check for a 0 return.
>
> Sure, that simple to implement, that's not my point. I just thought this might
> not be right in makepkg.

I can see both sides here, so I have nothing to add, really. The
return of makepkg, to me, indicates that "makepkg failed", not
"something failed". However, if installation of the package actually
fails, it _might_ be synonymous with "this package is borked" which
would, in turn, indicate a makepkg issue.