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

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 16:02:23 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 21.06.2010 20:39, schrieb Aaron Griffin:
>> This is how it was intended: removing packages requires db-remove.
>>
>> In order to do it any other way, we would need to scan all PKGBUILDs
>> (we do this in the cleanup script already, I think), grab the split
>> names + versions, and then remove those items from a list of
>> everything in the dir. Anything remaining gets db-removed.
>>
>> It sounds tedious and messy though
>
> Can you db-remove a package that is not found in SVN? I used repo-remove
> on the db file manually now.

I believe so. It should still try to remove it from SVN, but I don't
think it's a process-stopping error if it fails


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