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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Loui <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Taging simo's inbox here. I won't be able to get to this for a while.