[arch-dev-public] devtools problem

[Allan McRae]

On 17/03/11 15:51, Ray Rashif wrote:
> On 17 March 2011 05:24, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre at archlinux.de>  wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:50:30 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>> On 17/03/11 06:39, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>>>> You are right, I missed that. I have no idea how to fix the testing
>>>>> host with extra chroot problem. Is there a way to detect when running
>>>>> pacman-db-upgrade is needed?
>>>>
>>>> find /var/lib/pacman/local -name depends
>>>
>>> Stupid me. I should have looked at the upgrade script before; it's
>>> quite simple. I guess we could allways run that.
>>
>> This will either take 5 seconds or 0 seconds to run; it never hurts to
>> just call it anyway.
>>
>>>>> I guess to solve the first problem we would
>>>>> also need a pacman-db-downgrade script.
>>>>
>>>> pacman-db-downgrade would be basically impossible...  you could
>>>> symlink the desc file to depends in every local package database
>>>> directory.
>>
>> I'm not following the logic in this thread at all. Won't this be a
>> problem for all of like 3 days here when the pacman version in
>> [testing] vs. non-testing is different? And after that who cares? Or
>> you could just upgrade your chroots and system to pacman 3.5 and it
>> wouldn't matter either; this package depends on nothing else in
>> [testing].
>>
>>> If I'd add those link pacman 3.4 would be able to read the db, right?
>>> But once we update to 3.5 the upgrade script will ad all entries again.
>>> Maybe I'll need to modify the upgrade script to remove the desc files if
>>> they are just links.
>>>
>>> Btw: Do you guys plan the same for the db files? (merging deps and desc
>>> entries)
>>
>> Eventually, but there is this crazy thing called backward
>> compatibility that we have to take into account...
>
> If you have chroot perms - and most people do aside from remote users
> - you can just:
>
> ~# chroot $chrootdir/root/ pacman-db-upgrade
>
> That will save you from recreating the chroot with mkarchroot -r
> (which is the "long-term" solution/fix IMO). I see no problem/issue
> here at all.
>

Most people will have sudo permissions for mkarchroot as that is needed 
to create the chroot....  so this will work:

mkarchroot -r "pacman-db-upgrade" /path/to/chroot