[arch-dev-public] broken database entries

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  there are regularly some broken entries, with a FILENAME mismatch for
> example.
>  A while ago, I reported a bug for two broken entries along with a simple
> one-line command that anyone can run to detect them :
>  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9337
>  for i in /var/lib/pacman/sync/*/*; do grep -A1 FILENAME $i/desc | tail -n1
> | grep -v $(basename $i) && echo $(basename $i); done
>
>  This currently returns one broken entry : devtools, also reported here :
>  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10262
>
>  Maybe this information is already obsolete with the new db scripts on the
> way (well, anyone can dream). And apparently a new devtools will come with
> the new db script, so that should also fix the db entry issue.
>
>  This mail is simply a reminder that it's very easy to check the sync dbs
> for this kind of mismatch, and that 10262 can probably be closed when a new
> devtools is added.

Thanks Xavier,
I will add this to the set of cron scripts the new db scripts will be
using to keep everything in check. Any more integrity checks that
belong there?