[pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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!

Xavier is the expert on this one, I believe he has mentioned the empty
DB case before.

-Dan