On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Cedric Staniewski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No reason.... I was going to adjust my patch to this syntax. >> However, I have discovered, the patch causes makepkg to halt if there >> are no files in ${pkgdir}. This is entirely possible with something >> like "meta-packages" which just contain a list of deps. So I am going >> to need to use some sort of "grep ... || ret=" syntax anyway. >> >> Allan >> > > > I tried to reproduce this, but was not able to do so. >
Ah this is what I forgot to ask Allan today. I wanted to tell him I didn't understand why grep would get stuck, and why this other syntax would change anything about it.
