[pacman-dev] Interesting side-effect of IgnorePkg

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Nagy Gabor<ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> So I tried to install base-devel on my slice today so I could build  a
>> package:
>>
>> $ pacS base-devel
>> Password:
>> base-devel package not found, searching for group...
>> :: group base-devel (including ignored packages):
>>    autoconf  automake  bin86  bison  ed  fakeroot  flex  gcc  libtool
>>  m4  make  patch  pkgconfig
>> :: Install whole content? [Y/n] y
>> warning: autoconf-2.63-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> warning: bison-2.4.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>> :: gcc is in IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n] n
>> gcc package not found, searching for group...
>> error: 'gcc': not found in sync db
>>
>> I said no to GCC becuase I have most of the toolchain/libc held back
>> because the Xen kernel running there is older. However, I already have
>> GCC installed, but it still caused the group install to fail.
>>
>> -Dan
>
> Did you try with pacman-git? This should be fixed, see FS#12059.

Haha, of course not. I probably should have dug a bit first, whoops. I
just built pacman-git on that box and it seems to have done what I
expected now, so thanks for letting me know I don't even know what
we've done in 3.3.

On a side note, I *really* need to make time for 3.3 release planning
and the actual release. Hopefully everyone on the list will be ready
for the barrage of activity needed to get this thing out the door, so
start formulating any thoughts for last minute things that we need to
fix or do.

-Dan