On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Loui <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT) > Eric Belanger <belanger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Loui wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT) >> > Eric Belanger <belanger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> I can't move gtkglextmm to unsupported. I'm getting the famous "You are >> >> not allowed to overwrite the gtkglextmm package." error. >> > >> > You could move them to unstable in the mean time maybe. >> > >> >> Moving them to unstable would only be unnecessary work. Aaron has fixed a >> similar problem for acroread so that problem can be fixed, at least on a >> package-by-package basis. > > acroread7-chsfont depends on acroread but it doesn't show up on the > page. It looks like the DB entry was clobbered. You'll need to retain > the ID for those "Not allowed to overwrite" packages for a proper fix. > > Here are the proper mysql commands to fix this on a one off basis: > > USE AUR; # Or whatever the DB is called. > UPDATE Packages SET DummyPkg = 0 WHERE Name = "pkgname"; > UPDATE Packages SET LocationID = 2 WHERE Name = "pkgname"; > > The package should then be visible as an orphan from the web interface. > Adopt it and upload your tarball. > > I posted the solution here as well: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672 Taging simo's inbox here. I won't be able to get to this for a while.
