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FS#34317 - Incomplete clean up of old version packages using -Sc

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Hal King (Hal9King) - Friday, 15 March 2013, 04:46 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 04:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Backend/Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.3
Due in Version 4.2.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

Ran 'pacman -Sc' to remove old packages -- answering 'y' to both questions.
It failed to remove old 'parts' of failed download packages (i.e. package.tar.xz.part)
This produced error messages about missing metadata.

Steps to Reproduce:

As above -- note the old complete downloaded packages were removed -- just missed the
ones with a '.part' (due to network disconnect). Apparently it does not look for this condition and assumes all old files will be complete. (They were from a later download). Unclear whether this is a pure download clean up error or a clean out old package error -- might handle it both ways. Manual removal of the file cleared the issue.

Low priority.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 04:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  git commit a975523f

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