Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-24 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Xavier wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Xavier schrieb: >>> >>> Before, repo-rm on the last package would leave the last package in >>> the database, which was quite odd. >>> Having an empty file would be odd too, because tar/bs

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-24 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Donnerstag 24 September 2009 08:58:50 schrieb Xavier: > Would a server/mirror error still produce a valid tar.gz file ? Very unlikely. PS: Nice; now we need someone to deploy this on gerolde/sigurd. :-) -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-23 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 11:45:53 schrieb Xavier: >> Anyway this seems to work for all combination (4) of gnutar/bsdtar, so >> it is still my preferred solution : >> tar cvzf test.tar.gz -T /dev/null >> tar xf test.tar.gz > > Looks fine

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-23 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 11:45:53 schrieb Xavier: > Anyway this seems to work for all combination (4) of gnutar/bsdtar, so > it is still my preferred solution : > tar cvzf test.tar.gz -T /dev/null > tar xf test.tar.gz Looks fine to me; and I think we should implement this. The point is that i

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-23 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Xavier schrieb: >> >> Before, repo-rm on the last package would leave the last package in >> the database, which was quite odd. >> Having an empty file would be odd too, because tar/bsdtar would fail on >> it. > > $ touch foo.db.tar.gz > $

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Xavier schrieb: Before, repo-rm on the last package would leave the last package in the database, which was quite odd. Having an empty file would be odd too, because tar/bsdtar would fail on it. $ touch foo.db.tar.gz $ bsdtar -xf foo.db.tar.gz $ echo $? 0 $ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-23 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Allan McRae 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              

Re: [pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-22 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Allan McRae 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%

[pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

2009-09-22 Thread Allan McRae
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 [#