Problem with managing community repositories

[anuj17280]

Hi,

I have created my own repository to manage binary packages - I have created my repository successfully and upload some packages on it. Now, I would like to remove one package from that repository e.g. package name is "xyz" - to remove that package I have run "equo community database remove xyz", after running that command it shows that it remove the package from my own community database and ask me to run "activator" to remove binary package. Now i do not know what command should I run or what parameters should I pass to activator to remove binary package from my own community repository.


FYI: when i run "equo search xyz" command from shell it still shows package is available.

Regards,
Anuj Jain

[Thev00d00]

try:

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# activator --help

and see what comes up?

EDIT, try the post below this one first

[sjieke]

I haven't tried it myself, but if I were in your situation I would try to update and sync the mirrors using following commands:

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equo community repos update

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equo community mirrors sync

Please provide feedback here if you succeeded and how, because there will be others who will face the same problem in the near futher, me for example

EDIT: V00d00's suggestion will probably be better, it wasn't there when I was typing this...

[anuj17280]

Hi,

As mentioned, I have tried

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equo community repos update

and

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equo community mirrors sync

without any success. Here are the steps with there respective output, which i have tried to remove binary package from my own community repository.

-> equo community database remove xyz : After running this command it shows me that
Packages removed. To remove binary packages, run activator.

-> equo community repos update : if ask me to add the xyz package again, I have to choose no so that it does not add "xyz" package again.

-> equo community mirrors sync : After running this command it ask me "Should I continue with the tidy procedure" - After select/typing yes it shows "nothing to remove on this branch".

FYI: After doing some R&D, it seems that "equo community repos update" command add/configure repository locally on the system on path "/var/lib/entropy/server/productname/" and configure the desire filestructure, and when we run "equo community mirrors sync" it sync locally configured/created repository filestructure with actual configured repository (which we configured in /etc/entropy/server.conf". Now after removing the package when we run "equo community mirrors sync" it create one more file in "/var/lib/entropy/server/productname/packages/x86/branchname/catogary::xyz.tbz2.expired". To remove expired packages as per my understanding we need to run either "equo community mirrors tidy" or "activator tidy" but after running both these command still not able to remove the binary package.

[anuj17280]

Hi,

It seems there is some bug with tidy option - I have opened the bug for that, please visit URL: http://bugs.sabayonlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476 for more information.

Regards,
Anuj Jain

[sjieke]

Thx for the info,

I will keep an eye on that bug