[pacman-dev] makepkg aborts when using unknown terminal

[Eric Bélanger]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.  ;)
>
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-June/011263.html
>
>

I tested Nezmer's patch and it fix this problem. However, the error
message is still printed for each call to tput (maybe it should be
sent to /dev/null) but makepkg doen't abort anymore.

Eric