[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Print error on duplicated database entries

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Nov 14 00:33:51 EST 2009


Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Some users reported duplicated database entries in /var/lib/pacman/local/,
> for example, both foo-1.0-1 and foo-2.0-1 subdirectories existed. (Bogus
> 3rd-party scripts, backup?) In this case pacman reported no error and its
> behaviour was mysterious.
> 
>>From now on, pacman detects this situation and prints an error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
> ---

Looks good to me.  I have seen this on the forums a couple of times on 
the forums and it is very confusing to diagnose what the problem is.

Allan


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