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The problem statement: checkPackageDB and checkRemovedPackageDB need bit of information on the package they're checking: a full list of pkgnames with that pkgbase, the list of pkgarches, and (for checkPackageDB only) the full version. In dbscripts itself, we can get that directly from the .db files; however, since the test suite is checking the ability of dbscripts to edit those .db files, that's obviously not a good solution. The current solution is to get this information from the PKGBUILD... which we also count on dbscripts to correctly keep track of. Wait, that's skipping ahead, let's back up. The current solution is to get this information from the PKGBUILD. For checkRemovedPackageDB, that's easy; we just get it from trunk, as that's the most up-to-date information on the package as-it-would-have-existed (if that sounded a little hand-wavey, it was). But for checkPackageDB, it's a little trickier, because of 2 factors working together: (1) there might be different versions on different repos, and (2) unlike checkRemovedPackageDB, checkPackageDB actually cares about pkgver. So, checkPackageDB "guesses" the location in a slightly sloppy way, and is tagged with a "FIXME". What todo about it? There are a couple of things to observe: - Hidden in the hand-waving in assuming that "trunk" is fine for checkRemovedPackageDB is the assumption that neither pkgname=() nor arch=() is going to change between versions. Which is a fine assumption, because we don't change those things between versions in any of our test cases. - We're counting on dbscripts correctly keeping track of which PKGBUILD is correct for which repo... which is one of the thing's we're trying to test, we shouldn't be counting on it. That's actually a bigger problem than the original "FIXME"! So, putting those things together, let's (1) take the code under test out of the equation, and (2) remove any suggestion that the version of the PKGBUILD makes a difference to pkgnames/pkgarches: Let's have both functions that that information from the PKGBUILDs under "fixtures/", rather than getting PKGBUILDs from VCS. That just leaves one question: How to get the correct pkgver in checkPackageDB? The obvious answer is: Each test case knows what the version should be; add it as an argument, and adjust every testcase that calls it.
