2014-09-05 16:22 GMT+01:00 Peter Bonivart <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński > <[email protected]> wrote: >> To assign a package to this fake maintainer, somebody has to rebuild >> packages and spoof the maintainer name. > > Yes, that's the normal way of updating the database but surely it must > be possible to re-assign packages directly in the database.
It's not possible now, unfortunately. I mean, unless somebody implements it. > I assume > pkginfo data is never used again by us so it doesn't matter much if > someone downloads a package and queries it for the old maintainer. You would need to update it in at least two places: - the svr4_file_stats table - the JSON blob > When forking Dago also ran every package through a script to rebuild > pkginfo data so even that isn't that hard if deemed necessary. Maybe this would be a better idea? Instead of messing with the database, modify packages and push them using the standard procedure? Maciej
