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flowheat

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Registered: 2008-09-23

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[SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

Since the Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade every time I try to run a command using yaourt I see this integrity check message at the end of the output.

yaourt -Syu
 Synchronizing package databases...
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
Checking the integrity of the local database in /var/lib/pacman/

However I don't see it when using pacman

pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 local database is up to date

Any ideas?

Last edited by flowheat (2009-08-06 00:06:25)

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Ghost1227

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

That is because yaourt issues a call to testdb to validate the local database integrity. I don't know any way of silencing the output of testdb, but you could patch yaourt to not run this step...

--- yaourt.orig    2009-08-05 19:10:17.969351775 -0400
+++ yaourt    2009-08-05 19:10:35.892722153 -0400
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@
     fi
 
     # testdb
-    testdb
+    # testdb
 
     # save original of backup files (pacnew/pacsave)
     if [ "$MAJOR" != "remove" ] && [ $AUTOSAVEBACKUPFILE -eq 1 ] && ! diff "$INSTALLED_BEFORE.full" "$INSTALLED_AFTER.full" > /dev/null; then

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flowheat

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

That did the trick, but shouldn't I have been seeing that msg before the pacman 3.3.0 update?

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Ghost1227

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

Either yaourt was recently updated to include testdb, or testdb was recently updated to include the error message, I don't know which. AFAIK the pacman update was just coincidental.

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Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

> pacman -Qo $(which testdb)
/usr/bin/testdb is owned by pacman 3.3.0-2

Looks more than co-incidental to me...

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Ghost1227

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

> pacman -Qo $(which testdb)
/usr/bin/testdb is owned by pacman 3.3.0-2

Looks more than co-incidental to me...

Like I said... I didn't look into it. However, Allan (as usual) is right. Looks like yaourt was updated to impliment a new feature in pacman.

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Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

Nah, my point was that testdb is part of pacman which was just updated.  I guess this update made testdb more verbose (in fact, I am fairly sure it did...)

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flowheat

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

All makes sense now.  Thanks for the help as always.

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Pyntux

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

That is because yaourt issues a call to testdb to validate the local database integrity. I don't know any way of silencing the output of testdb, but you could patch yaourt to not run this step...

--- yaourt.orig    2009-08-05 19:10:17.969351775 -0400
+++ yaourt    2009-08-05 19:10:35.892722153 -0400
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@
     fi
 
     # testdb
-    testdb
+    # testdb
 
     # save original of backup files (pacnew/pacsave)
     if [ "$MAJOR" != "remove" ] && [ $AUTOSAVEBACKUPFILE -eq 1 ] && ! diff "$INSTALLED_BEFORE.full" "$INSTALLED_AFTER.full" > /dev/null; then

Can you please explane step by step how to use this patch? Thanks

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flowheat

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

1.) cd /usr/bin
2.) sudo nano yaourt
3.) Locate "testdb" line and make it "#testdb"

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ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

Me thinks the testing is done for a reason? I don't find the message very clutter-y anyway, and I think I'd want to know if/when there's a problem with my pacman db.

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jelly

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

well the yaourt maintainers should have had this fixed before pacman was moved to extra, but they didnt so there came a bug, you report it , they fix it    ??  Profit.

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

1.) cd /usr/bin
2.) sudo nano yaourt
3.) Locate "testdb" line and make it "#testdb"

Thanks!

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shining

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

well there is no clean way to filter this message and still let the errors show up.
just "testdb | grep -v Checking" which is rather ugly
so I am fine with removing this not so useful message from testdb

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helios91

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

well there is no clean way to filter this message and still let the errors show up.

Maybe

testdb 1> /dev/null

?

Last edited by helios91 (2009-08-07 14:49:56)

shining

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

well there is no clean way to filter this message and still let the errors show up.

Maybe

testdb 1> /dev/null

?

testdb > /dev/null would remove all the results, because they are not displayed on stderr. so it would make running testdb useless
unless you also check for the return value and display a warning if non 0

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wain

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

Fixed in yaourt-git ;-)

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shining

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Re: [SOLVED] Yaourt message on every operation since Pacman 3.3.0 upgrade

Fixed in yaourt-git ;-)

just to inform you that testdb 3.3.1 will be more quiet, like before :
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman … d7e32a3f24

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