[arch-dev-public] [Bug] db-scripts fail to remove split package

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Sun Jun 20 10:45:58 EDT 2010


On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:36:35 +1000, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
wrote:
> On 19/06/10 22:27, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> So if you remove split packages in the PKGBUILD you also have to remove
>> it
>> from the db. Maybe someone could write a patch for check_packages.py to
>> detect such orphaned packages.
>>
>> My suggestion: Packages should be removed only manually from the DB.
But
>> the check-script could be enhanced to detect such packages.
>>
> 
> My guess is the check screk already detects them.  We got errors about 
> xz-utils and pkgconfig when they were renamed and the old versions 
> removed from SVN.

I think this only checks if a packages was completely removed from svn but
not if a split package was removed from the PKGBUILD.

-- 
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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