* Jeffrey B. Green <[email protected]> [110213 21:15]:
>> - checking all packages in a distribution have a source package in that
>> distribution?
>>
>> i.e. what 'reprepro sourcemissing' does (introduced in 4.3.0)?
>
> I can't find a reference to this action in the manpage.
I think you only have 4.2.0 installed. It's only available since 4.3.0.
>> - checking everything can be get from some other distribution/remote?
>>
>> i.e. something like temporarily chaning the update/pull rule to start
>> with a delete rule ("-") and running checkpull/checkupdate and only
>> showing which packages would be deleted?
>>
>> - something else?
>>
>> what should it check for?
>>
> Basically it is a tool for checking that the local db/packages.db is in
> synchronization with the Packages file(s) on the master repository if
> exact synchronization is desired. Or how they differ if differences are
> part of the local repo. (I'm assuming the Packages files are a reference
> point since they are downloaded when (re)building the db/packages.db
> file.) The local version of the Packages file(s) apparently are built
> from the information in the db/packages.db file (and possibly other
> databases).
That sounds a bit like the above. Could you try if that is what you
want? (i.e. add a '-' as first part of Update:, run checkupdate and
remove the '-' again).
Bernhard R. Link
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