On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ;) > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-June/011263.html > >
I tested Nezmer's patch and it fix this problem. However, the error message is still printed for each call to tput (maybe it should be sent to /dev/null) but makepkg doen't abort anymore. Eric
