Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:55 Uhr +0100 08.12.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > >In the package database on the fink web site, there are still > >package descriptions for xfree86-rootless and xfree86-server, > >although these packages are marked as "Not present" in all > >distributions. > > > >I don't know if there exist other descriptions of "not present" > >packages, but these two are confusing users, in particular since > >*-rootless is marked "experimental" and *-server is said to be the > >stable variant. They should be removed. > > > >I know that the pdb is generated automatically, but then it is hard > >to understand where it finds these old package descriptions that > >haven't existed for many months. > > The PDB is stored in a MySQL database. And old entries are normally > left in the DB unless explicitly overwritten, so when a package is > removed, it may not be removed from the PDB. Somebody would have to > go over the DB and clean out all the old bad entries. >
I don't know MySQL, but couldn't the SQL request check to make sure that the package is listed in one of the current groups, before including it in the output? (Or would the overhead be too great?) -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
