[arch-dev-public] db-remove slightly broken on x86_64

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 17:12:07 EDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was running db-remove on weechat in [testing] (the version in [extra] was
> updated and no longer needs a rebuild for ruby) yesterday and I got some
> weird output.
>
> [allan at gerolde ~]$ /arch/db-remove weechat testing i686
> ==> Removing package 'weechat' from 'testing'...
> Checked out revision 51221.
>  Removing from subversion
>  Removing from testing DB file (i686)
> ==> Extracting database to a temporary location...
> ==> Searching for package 'weechat'...
> ==> Creating updated database file 'testing.db.tar.gz'
> Package files will be cleaned up automatically
>
> [allan at gerolde ~]$ /arch/db-remove weechat testing x86_64
> ==> Removing package 'weechat' from 'testing'...
> Checked out revision 51222.
>  Removing from subversion
>  Removing from testing DB file (i686)
> ==> Extracting database to a temporary location...
> ==> Searching for package 'weechat'...
> ==> ERROR: Package matching 'weechat' not found.
> ==> No packages modified, nothing to do.
> Package files will be cleaned up automatically
> error: repo lock doesn't exist... something went terribly wrong!
>
> I'm guessing the PKGBUILD is sourced and the arch variable is overwritten...
>  I am a bit busy to look into this at the moment so I am flagging it for
> someone else to look at.
>
> Allan
>

It's already fixed in git.


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