[pacman-dev] pacman test-o-rama

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/3/21, Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 00:05:57 Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > We'd like to move pacman 3 to [testing] Real Soon (TM).  But I just
> > want to make sure we cover all the bases.
> >
> > I'm going to invite everyone interested to IRC for a big ol'
> > test-fest.  Feel free to join #archlinux-pacman on freenode (it's an
> > open channel, feel free to join whenever you want).
> >
> > I'd like to run through everything tonight and tomorrow, so we can
> > push this on Wed or so.  So if you have something you feel is
> > critical, please join up and let myself (phrakture) or dan (toofishes)
> > know and we can get to working on it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Aaron
> >
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>
> Maybe another bug...
> I installed fortune-mod-homer today:
>
> [root at laptop ~]# pacman -S fortune-mod-homer
> resolving dependencies... done.
> looking for inter-conflicts... done.
>
> Targets: recode-3.6-2  fortune-mod-1.99.1-3  fortune-mod-homer-20011112-1
>
> Total Package Size:   3.26 MB
>
> Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
> checking package integrity... done.
> cleaning up... done.
> (3/3) checking for file conflicts
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
> (1/3) installing recode
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
> (2/3) installing fortune-mod
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
> (3/3) installing fortune-mod-homer
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> After a while I deinstalled it again:
>
> [root at laptop ~]# pacman -Rscn fortune-mod-homer
> checking dependencies... done.
>
> Targets: fortune-mod-homer  fortune-mod
>
> Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
>
> (1/2) removing fortune-mod-homer
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
>
> As you can see not all packages are selected, and only one package is actually
> deinstalled.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Now I try to deinstall the package "recode":
>
> [root at laptop ~]# pacman -Rscn recode
> checking dependencies...
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
> error: could not find fortune-mod in database -- skipping
>
> This will be printed infinite so I have to terminate pacman.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Now I reinstall fortune-mod-homer again:
>
> [root at laptop ~]# pacman -Sf fortune-mod-homer
> resolving dependencies... done.
> looking for inter-conflicts... done.
>
> Targets: fortune-mod-1.99.1-3  fortune-mod-homer-20011112-1
>
> Total Package Size:   1.81 MB
>
> Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
> checking package integrity... done.
> cleaning up... done.
> (1/2) installing fortune-mod
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
> (2/2) installing fortune-mod-homer
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ... and then deinstall "recode":
>
> [root at laptop ~]# pacman -Rscn recode
> checking dependencies... done.
>
> Targets: fortune-mod-homer  fortune-mod  recode
>
> Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
>
> (1/3) removing fortune-mod-homer
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
> (2/3) removing fortune-mod
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
> (3/3) removing recode
> [###########################################################################################]
> 100%
>
> Now everything is removed....
>
> I guess this is no normal behaviour so I thought I post this here....
>

It happened to me before, but it was due to corrupted db by pacman2 or
one of early pacman3 versions.

Can you reproduce it after this?:
rm -rf /var/pacman/lib/{current,extra}
pacman -Sy

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)