[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Return 17 if a package/group has been built.

[Jack L. Frost]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:38:22AM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> Would it not make more sense to just return 0 for this?  Presumably if
> a user or script is running makepkg without --force they don't care
> whether the package is newly built or already existed.  Is there
> actually a use case where a user would care if the package had already
> been built but would not run with --force to begin with?
> 
> apg

The reason I use it in this way is for automated build scripts to be able to
rely on makepkg to figure out if a package of this specific version has already
been built or not and give me the appropriate message in the log. Otherwise I
would have to parse makepkg's output to know that the package didn't fail te
build, it refused to.

And checking outside of makepkg would require duplicating some code.
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