[pacman-dev] makepkg aborts when using unknown terminal

[Eric Bélanger]

Hi,

This problem is somewhat related to the terminal color problem so I
apologize if it's already taken care by these patches.

I use rxvt-unicode as my terminal.  Since pacman 3.4, when building
packages with makechrootpkg, makepkg aborts with the following error:
tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode"

This happens because I use a clean chroot in which rxvt-unicode isn't
installed so the terminal definition file
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode isn't present.  As a workaround, I
added a 'TERM=xterm' in the wrapper script I use.

It would be nice if, instead of aborting on unknown terminals, makepkg
would fallback to the dumb terminal. The dumb terminal currently
doesn's work as I believe it doesn't support colors. This change along
with the color patch would make makpkg more robust when handling
different and unusual terminals.

Personnally, I will keep my workaround as I like color.  ;)

Eric