[arch-dev-public] Devtools problems

[Dan McGee]

On 9/16/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I'm an idiot, sorry. Of course if anyone wants to make the error
message better for dummies like me that don't have a core/ staging dir
on gerolde, I'd appreciate it. :)

-Dan