[aur-dev] acroread issue

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu May 15 15:19:38 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, we killed off acroread in the main repos (redistribution rules).
> I'm trying to upload it to unsupported, but I am getting yelled at -
> package exists.
>
> Doing a search tells me that no packages match the exact name. I am
> not sure where this is coming from - does the AUR check for existence
> in [extra]? If so, is anyone aware of how the data is pulled from the
> main db?
>
> tarball is here: http://phraktured.net/acroread.tar.gz
>
> If anyone can figure this out, that'd be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>

Well, ignore me. I just deleted it from the aur DB. /me shrugs

For some reason, the acroread dummy package was still there. Maybe the
AUR never deletes these dummy packages, only adds them - could someone
verify?




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