[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/3] makepkg: send messages to stdout rather than stderr

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/28/18 1:19 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> This behavior is confusing, since it means absolutely everything goes to
> stderr and makepkg itself is a quiet program that produces no expected
> output???
> 
> The only situation where messages should go to stderr rather than
> stdout, is with --geninteg which is meant to return the checksums on
> stdout (but we don't want to totally get rid of status messages when
> redirecting the results elsewhere, or, worse, redirect status messages
> to a PKGBUILD). For this specific case, redirect message output to
> stderr in the --geninteg callers directly.
> 
> Implements FS#17173
Don't use this.

Actually the pkgver() function saves the stdout of run_function_safe to
a variable, and this patch would ensure the variable contains some
decidedly not-pkgver content. :(

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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