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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2009-09-29 21:08:06 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2009-09-29 21:08:06 -0500
commit8e7652f1afd7ba5198f3aa10a94c50bb67f7a407 (patch)
treefb125716750985f491070796bd1a51211a0fe89b /scripts
parent2071286770b3dbe531423aa3e8517dac68f04154 (diff)
parent20392c0a025d01128eb78c6656db7c15b3fbcd89 (diff)
Merge branch 'maint'
Conflicts: lib/libalpm/dload.c
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/repo-add.sh.in16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
index 6aa7fe73..bcbd3b37 100644
--- a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
@@ -306,9 +306,14 @@ check_repo_db()
fi
if [ -f "$REPO_DB_FILE" ]; then
- if ! bsdtar -tqf "$REPO_DB_FILE" '*/desc' 2>&1 >/dev/null; then
- error "$(gettext "Repository file '%s' is not a proper pacman database.")" "$REPO_DB_FILE"
- exit 1
+ # there are two situations we can have here- a DB with some entries,
+ # or a DB with no contents at all.
+ if ! bsdtar -tqf "$REPO_DB_FILE" '*/desc' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ # check empty case
+ if [ -n "$(bsdtar -tqf "$REPO_DB_FILE" '*' 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+ error "$(gettext "Repository file '%s' is not a proper pacman database.")" "$REPO_DB_FILE"
+ exit 1
+ fi
fi
msg "$(gettext "Extracting database to a temporary location...")"
bsdtar -xf "$REPO_DB_FILE" -C "$tmpdir"
@@ -472,8 +477,9 @@ if [ $success -eq 1 ]; then
if [ -n "$(ls)" ]; then
bsdtar -c${TAR_OPT}f "$filename" *
else
- # the database will be moved to .old below, and there will be no new one to replace it
- error "$(gettext "All packages have been removed from the database. Deleting '%s'.")" "$REPO_DB_FILE"
+ # we have no packages remaining? zip up some emptyness
+ warning "$(gettext "No packages remain, creating empty database.")"
+ bsdtar -c${TAR_OPT}f "$filename" -T /dev/null
fi
cd "$startdir"