Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

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.


Max
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