Re: [Sks-devel] Permanent diff with pgp.srv.ualberta.ca

[Jason Harris]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:20:37PM +0200, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:25:18PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote:

> > > When you invoke sks cleandb the first time it creates the file
> > > KDB/meta where is written that KDB database is clean. Any subsequent
> > > invocation of sks cleandb return immediately without doing any
> > > work.
> > > Only deleting KDB/meta you can force another cleandb cycle.
> > 
> > Indeed, and I never liked this EVIL(TM) misfeature.  :)  So, finally,
> > here's a quick patch:
> > 
> [snip patch]
> 
> I made this more "politically correct" patch (attached).
> 
> With this patch, you don't need to delete KDB/meta, but only specify
> -force_cleaning on command line.

This just overcomplicates things.  When you need to run cleandb, you
want it to just run.  It isn't like build/fastbuild or pbuild, which
actually protect you from destroying existing dbs.  Even worse, and
I've said this before on this list, "sks merge" doesn't filter,
making cleandb necessary after merging.

So, what are you (first Yaron, and now Marco) protecting against?

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