[pacman-dev] Weird bug in sync/upgrade behavior

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>
> > Dan McGee wrote:
>  >
>  >> Can anyone else try to reproduce this? Try deleting all .lastupdate
>  >> files except the one for core, if you have testing enabled, and seeing
>  >> what happens on the first and second runs of -Syu.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>
> > I can not replicate this at all...
>  >
>  >
>
>  I have even tried adding the extra repos you have enabled with no
>  success in replicating.

I was able to bisect it at least- and it was me. I haven't looked into
why this broke it yet, but if anyone else wants to poke at it, feel
free.

046003844739416ff6d168dd2dec76490adb0727 is first bad commit
commit 046003844739416ff6d168dd2dec76490adb0727
Author: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
Date:   Sun May 11 19:29:23 2008 -0500

    Remove some useless abstraction and start db cleanup

    We have some useless abstractions like an alpm_db_rewind function. I've read
    somewhere that readdir() was the worst filesystem function call invented,
    and what do we do? Add a wrapper around it. Kill this abstraction and move
    some other things into be_files that should be there anyway because they
    are so tied to how a files backend works.

    Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>

:040000 040000 534812c4e1341825ff0ef0446bba8a7e865f6d43
24fd6a8b87d064809de09a295e7b8fd4ede198b9 M      lib
bisect run success


$ git bisect log
# bad: [663408532ae852e7123da6b9658df1cacc0c642d] Merge branch 'maint'
# good: [e3d35b3274f13cc9ed8d79fa873d6348e424259e] Add detailed
description to alpm_pkg_load
git-bisect start 'master' 'maint'
# good: [35135c0a0cbac592e72296c0ca64e9def0308942] Add -Rss option
git-bisect good 35135c0a0cbac592e72296c0ca64e9def0308942
# good: [db4258c1fdf27708968baf9c4e730a014af40fd8] Some comments for
_alpm_unpack.
git-bisect good db4258c1fdf27708968baf9c4e730a014af40fd8
# good: [4e6361642e632b8631e3d12ee33b1cf5293edb83] Rework
extract_single_file() temp file creation
git-bisect good 4e6361642e632b8631e3d12ee33b1cf5293edb83
# good: [502645c0e304a8ee062d8da7f162ff4c195e6be8] makepkg: Unify
start and end messages
git-bisect good 502645c0e304a8ee062d8da7f162ff4c195e6be8
# good: [0bfc8adf377e7c0d4870fd79999b359a00bc96e2] contrib/paclist:
list packages installed from given repo.
git-bisect good 0bfc8adf377e7c0d4870fd79999b359a00bc96e2
# good: [3c3cb001a441656c2afba62f0361b83d4987339c] Make all error
messages use pm_fprintf
git-bisect good 3c3cb001a441656c2afba62f0361b83d4987339c
# bad: [13f24a5bdabf9c2c7bfa07aff7176495bb775a0d] Refactor
pkg_load/parse_descfile into a new backend file
git-bisect bad 13f24a5bdabf9c2c7bfa07aff7176495bb775a0d
# bad: [046003844739416ff6d168dd2dec76490adb0727] Remove some useless
abstraction and start db cleanup
git-bisect bad 046003844739416ff6d168dd2dec76490adb0727