On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Peter Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 at 14:06 Laurent Carlier wrote: >> > Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they should >> > be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 & missing >> > package() function) > > I'm thinking that I missed the message when the "|| return 1" thing was > deprecated. Can someone point me to something I can read about the change and > what I'm supposed to do instead? > > (AFAICT there are a lot of PKGBUILDS around that use it - and I'm pretty sure > it used to be encouraged by the packaging guidelines.) > > Thanks, > > Pete. >
Since 3.4.0, makepkg automatically aborts when when one command in the build or package functions doesn't terminate successfully. Therefore, the "|| return 1" are no longer necessary and can be removed from PKGBUILD to tidy them up. You'll probably get more info in the pacman/makepkg ChangeLog.
