[pacman-dev] makepkg, su and output - Was: [PATCH 1/3] makepkg: simplify su/sudo calling logic

[Andres P]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 1. update ABS
> 2. cp /var/abs/community-testing/pacman-contrib/* .
> 3. adjust dependencies to be  depends=('pacman>4')
> 4. makepkg -s, type in your password.  It will reinstall pacman from the
> repos and then bail because on missing deps
> 5. notice file named "4" in you directory containing pacman output...
>

Yep, now i see:

pacman-contrib $ cat 4
warning: downgrading package pacman (3.4.0-1 => 3.3.3-5)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): pacman-3.3.3-5

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   2.09 MB

checking package integrity...
checking for file conflicts...
upgrading pacman...

However, this is no longer an issue after my patch and can confirm
that there's no $startdir/4.

$ printf %q\\n "pacman>4"
pacman\>4

Andres P