[pacman-dev] more universal testdb -- bugs in our sync repos

[Xavier]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:28:02PM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Imho that would be helpful if testdb were more flexible.
> 
> This may not be the proper ML (but I'm sure that reporting bugs is better than
> being silent), but I made some tests on sync repos, and I found the following
> inconsistencies in our sync dbs, mostly in community (I have only core, extra,
> community "enabled"):
> 
> Unsatisfied dependencies:
> -------------------------
> firefox-i18n -> firefox-i18n=2.0.0.9
> dfm -> xfree86
> fvwm-themes-devel -> fvwm-devel
> icomplete -> vim-devel
> perl-xml-feed -> perl-datetime-format-mail -> perl-datetime>=0.1705
> perl-xml-rss -> perl-datetime-format-mail -> perl-datetime>=0.1705
> perl-datetime-format-strptime -> perl-datetime>=0.1402
> portaudio_cpp -> portaudio
> 
> Strange dependency (cycle):
> ---------------------------
> archboot->archboot
> 
> Some of them (like firefox-i18n) is not actual yet, but these things could be
> tested by a clever app (a modified testdb for internal use) to avoid these bugs.
> 

You may want to have a look at this :
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html