DeveloperWiki:Dbscripts

Usage

Add or update packages

Run db-update to release all packages that are found in your ~/staging directory. Packages for different repositories and architectures will be updated at once. A simple integrity check is run before any repository is touched.

Remove packages

Use db-remove with the following parameters to remove a package from a given repository:

$ db-remove pkgname|pkgbase repo arch

Note that pkgname is the name defined in the PKGBUILD and not the actual filename. For split packages, you need to use pkgbase to remove all split packages at once. (It is not possible to remove just a single one.)

Example:

$ db-remove lilo core x86_64

Move packages

db-move uses the following syntax to move packages between repositories:

$ db-move repo-from repo-to pkgname|pkgbase ...

You may move more than one package by simply appending them to the command. Use the pkgbase for split packages. All packages of all architectures are moved in one step.

Example:

$ db-move extra-testing extra php lighttpd apache

Moving packages from a testing repository to core and extra

As moving several packages from extra-testing to the repository they belong to is a common use case; especially after rebuilds. Use testing2x to move these packages to the correct repository. Of course, this will only work if previous version of those packages are already in core or extra

Example:

$ testing2x lilo php lighttpd apache zlib

This will move lilo and zlib to core and the other packages to extra. You should prefer db-move if you are sure that all packages to be moved have the same target repository.

Cleanup old packages

Old versions of packages are not removed by the scripts mentioned above. This cleanup is done regularly by a cron job called ftpdir-cleanup.

Development

• source: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/dbscripts
• test suite: runTest in test directory