On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This problem is somewhat related to the terminal color problem so I > apologize if it's already taken care by these patches. > > I use rxvt-unicode as my terminal. Since pacman 3.4, when building > packages with makechrootpkg, makepkg aborts with the following error: > tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode" > > This happens because I use a clean chroot in which rxvt-unicode isn't > installed so the terminal definition file > /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode isn't present. As a workaround, I > added a 'TERM=xterm' in the wrapper script I use. > > It would be nice if, instead of aborting on unknown terminals, makepkg > would fallback to the dumb terminal. The dumb terminal currently > doesn's work as I believe it doesn't support colors. This change along > with the color patch would make makpkg more robust when handling > different and unusual terminals. > > Personnally, I will keep my workaround as I like color. ;)
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