14 Nov
2009
14 Nov
'09
6:17 a.m.
Dan McGee wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Nagy Gabor wrote:
Some users reported duplicated database entries in /var/lib/pacman/local/, for example, both foo-1.0-1 and foo-2.0-1 subdirectories existed. (Bogus 3rd-party scripts, backup?) In this case pacman reported no error and its behaviour was mysterious.
From now on, pacman detects this situation and prints an error message. Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
Looks good to me. I have seen this on the forums a couple of times on the forums and it is very confusing to diagnose what the problem is.
How does `testdb` come into play here?
I just created a fake duplicate db entry and ran testdb but it gave no output. Allan