[arch-general] pacman 4 and "empty" repos

[Baho Utot]

On Friday 20 January 2012 07:30:53 am Allan McRae wrote:
> On 20/01/12 22:11, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > In ArchHaskell we are heavy users of mkarchroot/makechrootpkg for
> > building packages.  When setting up the root chroot pacman is
> > configured with a local db located at `/repo`, this makes already
> > built packages available as dependencies later on in a multi-package
> > build, and by using makechrootpkg's '-d' argument it all happens
> > automatically.
> >
> > With pacman 3 this didn't cause troubles besides a few warning
> > messages about [repo] not being available (the db isn't created until
> > the first package is built).  Pacman 4 doesn't seem as forgiving
> > though--it fails completely unless the db exists (though it may be
> > completely empty).
> >
> > Is there some way to coerce pacman 4 into being as forgiving as pacman 3
> > was?
> >
> > /M
>
> touch /repo/repo.db

Amen brother.....

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