On Friday 20 January 2012 07:30:53 am Allan McRae wrote: > On 20/01/12 22:11, Magnus Therning wrote: > > In ArchHaskell we are heavy users of mkarchroot/makechrootpkg for > > building packages. When setting up the root chroot pacman is > > configured with a local db located at `/repo`, this makes already > > built packages available as dependencies later on in a multi-package > > build, and by using makechrootpkg's '-d' argument it all happens > > automatically. > > > > With pacman 3 this didn't cause troubles besides a few warning > > messages about [repo] not being available (the db isn't created until > > the first package is built). Pacman 4 doesn't seem as forgiving > > though--it fails completely unless the db exists (though it may be > > completely empty). > > > > Is there some way to coerce pacman 4 into being as forgiving as pacman 3 > > was? > > > > /M > > touch /repo/repo.db Amen brother..... reach out and touch somebody
