Why after rebuild do I still get "warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description"?
All,
In whatever changed a week or so ago, pacman gave "... unknown key
'makepkgopt' in package description" for a slew of old packages left on my
system from a decade of use.
I've since gone back and removed all the packages and rebuilt the ones I
need, but I still get a handful of errors for the 'normalize' package I've
just built. What am I doing wrong?
On cleaning the cache I get:
20:11 valkyrie:~> pms -c
Packages to keep:
All locally installed packages
Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n]
removing old packages from cache...
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description
Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n]
removing unused sync repositories...
The normalize package is the one I just built and updated from AUR, e.g
20:12 valkyrie:~> pmqi normalize
Name : normalize
Version : 0.7.7-7
Description : A tool for adjusting the volume of WAV files to a standard level
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://normalize.nongnu.org
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : audiofile libmad vorbis-tools lame flac mpg123
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 118.49 KiB
Packager : Unknown Packager
Build Date : Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:07:32 PM CDT
Install Date : Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:08:26 PM CDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : None
The PKGBUILD is:
20:13 valkyrie:~> cat arch/pkg/bld/normalize/PKGBUILD
# $Id: PKGBUILD 266875 2017-11-15 14:29:11Z foutrelis $
# Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora
Hi David, the "description" is probably a "description" in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/. I still had no time trying to fix the issue, hence I still get: 9 times "warning: rxvt: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description" and 9 times "warning: gtk2_prefs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description" However, if it should be an entry or a missing entry in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/, then I don't know what entry it is. • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ strings /var/lib/pacman/local/gtk2_prefs-*/* | grep -i makepkgopt • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ echo $? 1 FWIW it seems to be unrelated to the issue, but I run diff /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew and diff /etc/makepkg.conf /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew to find out that on my install /etc/pacman.conf is still good, but /etc/makepkg.conf does differ a lot. Regards, Ralf
On 3/28/24 00:50, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Hi David,
the "description" is probably a "description" in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/.
I had not looked there! However, that seems clean as well, e.g.: [13:57 2pi:.../lib/pacman/local] # cat normalize-0.7.7-7/desc %NAME% normalize %VERSION% 0.7.7-7 %BASE% normalize %DESC% A tool for adjusting the volume of WAV files to a standard level %URL% http://normalize.nongnu.org ... hexdump -Cv normalize-0.7.7-7/desc shows no stray chars.
FWIW it seems to be unrelated to the issue, but I run
diff /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
and
diff /etc/makepkg.conf /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew
to find out that on my install /etc/pacman.conf is still good, but /etc/makepkg.conf does differ a lot.
I do as well. In fact on this machine (2pi), both pacman.conf and makepkg.conf are the new versions and unmodified from the Arch files. Still, on update just a few minutes ago, it still complains about normalize, 9X as well (which is curious - why the hell is is complaining about the same thing 9 times?) Thank you for your help! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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