Hi,

If I clean out the "packagefile.xml" file (aka the package registry) and manually remove all obsolete package entries..... if the remaining <itemXYZ> tags are not sequential, would that be an issue for Lazarus or lazbuild?

Regards,
Graeme

I think that would be an issue; I have always kept them sequential.

Michael.

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

I think that would be an issue; I have always kept them sequential.

I've always done the same (keep them sequential), but there was an aweful lot of packages in that registry, so I took a chance... I didn't even update the <UserPkgLinsk> Count attribute.... It seems lazbuild didn't give a hoot, and everything functioned as normal. Yeah!

I was curious though and asked the question here, before I completed cannibalising the package registry file. :)

So now we know, don't bother with sequential numbers... at least for now. But we don't know what the future holds. ;-)

Regards,
Graeme

No problem.

Mattias

Mattias Gaertner wrote

No problem.

Thanks for confirming that Mattias.

Regards,
Graeme

That is, assuming you have not touched the 'count' ?

Michael.

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

That is, assuming you have not touched the 'count' ?

I didn't look at the lazbuild code, but that should be easy to work around (if not already done so). eg: Read the package registry xml file. Read the Count attribute value and compare that to the child count of UserPkgLinks. If they don't match, ignore the Count attribute and simply walk through all the children of UserPkgLinks.

Regards,
Graeme