[arch-dev-public] Devtools problems

[Dan McGee]

dmcgee at dublin ~/projects/repos/core/base/pacman
$ corepkg
scp: staging/core/add: No such file or directory
Cancelled

dmcgee at dublin ~/projects/repos/core/base/pacman
$ ll /usr/bin/*pkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6K 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/checkpkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   17 2007-05-12 01:46 /usr/bin/communitypkg ->
/usr/bin/extrapkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    8 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/corepkg -> extrapkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9K 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/extrapkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2007-06-18 11:02 /usr/bin/ghc-pkg -> ghc-pkg-6.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  28K 2007-06-20 01:25 /usr/bin/makepkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.3K 2007-05-14 23:48 /usr/bin/queuepkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    8 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/testingpkg -> extrapkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.3K 2007-09-16 17:33 /usr/bin/testpkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.2K 2007-02-22 02:23 /usr/bin/tupkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    8 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/unstablepkg -> extrapkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.4K 2007-08-02 02:40 /usr/bin/versionpkg


A few problems here:
1. Why did the behavior of corepkg/extrapkg and friends suddenly
require a staging directory on my machine? This seems wrong. The old
way was perfectly acceptable...
2. Why is communitypkg an absolute link and the rest are not?

Right now, devtools is broken to me. Let me know if someone plans on
fixing it or if I'm going to back out changes that seem wrong to me.
Right now I can't upgrade a package if I wanted to (pacman 3.0.6
anyone?).

-Dan