pacman: automate updating pacman db

4 files changed, 37 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/abs/core/pacman/PKGBUILD b/abs/core/pacman/PKGBUILD
index a0cbdc2..e592ff5 100644
--- a/abs/core/pacman/PKGBUILD
+++ b/abs/core/pacman/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 pkgname=pacman
 pkgver=4.2.1
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="A library-based package manager with dependency support"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/"
@@ -25,12 +25,8 @@ source=(https://sources.archlinux.org/other/pacman/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
         pacman.conf.i686
         pacman.conf.x86_64
         makepkg.conf
-        makepkg-asroot.patch)
-md5sums=('2a596fc8f723e99660c0869a74afcf47'
-         '2db6c94709bb30cc614a176ecf8badb1'
-         'de74a13618347f08ae4a9637f74471c4'
-         '03d578816b56852d803cbafac85b9f09'
-         'bd3319d98bfc9560b0a765241f9ad80c')
+        makepkg-asroot.patch
+        pacman.cron)
 validpgpkeys=('6645B0A8C7005E78DB1D7864F99FFE0FEAE999BD')  # Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
 
 build() {
@@ -91,5 +87,15 @@ package() {
 
   #restore --asroot makepkg option
   cd $pkgdir/usr/bin/
-  patch -p0 -i $srcdir/makepkg-asroot.patch
+  patch -p0 -i "$srcdir/makepkg-asroot.patch"
+
+  #run pacman-db-upgrade from cron
+  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/MythVantage/bin"
+  install -m 0644 "$srcdir/pacman.cron" "$pkgdir/usr/MythVantage/bin/pacman.cron"
 }
+md5sums=('2a596fc8f723e99660c0869a74afcf47'
+         '2db6c94709bb30cc614a176ecf8badb1'
+         'de74a13618347f08ae4a9637f74471c4'
+         '03d578816b56852d803cbafac85b9f09'
+         'bd3319d98bfc9560b0a765241f9ad80c'
+         'd62e10ea6cc7ae617ba1a99d8f11eaf5')
diff --git a/abs/core/pacman/__changelog b/abs/core/pacman/__changelog
index 35b3de6..59c5ecc 100644
--- a/abs/core/pacman/__changelog
+++ b/abs/core/pacman/__changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 PKGBUILD: add pacman.install
 PKGBUILD: add makepkg-asroot.patch
 PKGBUILD: remove source sig
+PKGBUILD & .install: add pacman.cron to run pacman-db-upgrade after update
diff --git a/abs/core/pacman/pacman.cron b/abs/core/pacman/pacman.cron
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9155aed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/abs/core/pacman/pacman.cron
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+function pacman_wait {
+    if [ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ]
+    then
+        echo "Pacman is running and must quit before continuing."
+        echo "  Waiting for pacman to quit..."
+        while [ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ]
+        do
+        sleep 5
+        done
+    fi
+}
+
+pacman_wait
+pacman-db-upgrade &
+#remove pacman.cron from root crontab
+grep -v "* * * * *    /usr/bin/bash /usr/MythVantage/bin/pacman.cron" /var/spool/cron/root > /var/spool/cron/root2
+mv /var/spool/cron/root2 /var/spool/cron/root
+echo "root" >> /var/spool/cron/cron.update
diff --git a/abs/core/pacman/pacman.install b/abs/core/pacman/pacman.install
index 2c599c3..637a741 100644
--- a/abs/core/pacman/pacman.install
+++ b/abs/core/pacman/pacman.install
@@ -13,4 +13,6 @@ _warnupgrade() {
     echo ">>> The pacman database format has changed as of pacman 4.2.0."
     echo ">>> You will need to run \`pacman-db-upgrade\` as root."
     echo ">>>"
+    echo "* * * * *    /usr/bin/bash /usr/MythVantage/bin/pacman.cron" >> /var/spool/cron/root
+    echo "root" >> /var/spool/cron/cron.update
 }