Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 11:35 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: Doesn't the pdb auto-update with a script daily? If that's the case, why not just look for old ones and DELETE them from that script? It would be pretty easy to just delete anything from packages from thats not in

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Max Horn
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

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 02:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: I don't know MySQL, but couldn't the SQL request check to make sure that the package is listed in one of the current groups, before including it in the output? (Or would the overhead be too great?) Yes this should be

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 10:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: 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