[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption

[Loui]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT)
Eric Belanger <belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Loui wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
> > Eric Belanger <belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
> >
> >> I can't move gtkglextmm to unsupported. I'm getting the famous "You are
> >> not allowed to overwrite the gtkglextmm package." error.
> >
> > You could move them to unstable in the mean time maybe.
> >
> 
> Moving them to unstable would only be unnecessary work. Aaron has fixed a 
> similar problem for acroread so that problem can be fixed, at least on a 
> package-by-package basis.

acroread7-chsfont depends on acroread but it doesn't show up on the
page. It looks like the DB entry was clobbered. You'll need to retain
the ID for those "Not allowed to overwrite" packages for a proper fix.

Here are the proper mysql commands to fix this on a one off basis:

USE AUR; # Or whatever the DB is called.
UPDATE Packages SET DummyPkg = 0 WHERE Name = "pkgname";
UPDATE Packages SET LocationID = 2 WHERE Name = "pkgname";

The package should then be visible as an orphan from the web interface.
Adopt it and upload your tarball.

I posted the solution here as well:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672