[pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 22 19:59:09 EDT 2009


Hi,

With the community-testing repo now being empty, I get the following:

 > pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 kernel64 is up to date
 testing                   10.3K   21.2K/s 00:00:00 
[#####################] 100%
 core                      33.8K   34.8K/s 00:00:01 
[#####################] 100%
 extra                    429.2K   13.0K/s 00:00:33 
[#####################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'community-testing.db.tar.gz' from 
<"mirror"> : Not Found
error: failed to update community-testing (Not Found)
 community                365.3K   10.2K/s 00:00:36 
[#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 local database is up to date

Can we leave a shell database somehow when using repo-rm on the last 
package?  It seems [testing] has never been empty!

Allan



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