bin/get-assignment: remove old state files on handing out new assignment

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/get-assignment b/bin/get-assignment
index 42446bc..2f1c4f6 100755
--- a/bin/get-assignment
+++ b/bin/get-assignment
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ hand_out_assignment() {
     return 0
   fi
 
+  # we don't care anymore if an older version of this package was
+  # "locked" or "broken" (we keep only marker for older "done" packages)
+  ls "${work_dir}/package-states" | \
+    grep "^${1//./\\.}\(\.[^.]\+\)\{3\}\.\(locked\|broken\)\$" | \
+    sed "s|^|${work_dir}/package-states/|" | \
+    xargs -rn1 rm -f
+
   echo "$1 $2 $3 $4"
   echo "${slave}" > "${work_dir}/package-states/$1.$2.$3.$4.locked"
 
diff --git a/bin/return-assignment b/bin/return-assignment
index 2169729..b217409 100755
--- a/bin/return-assignment
+++ b/bin/return-assignment
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ mv *.pkg.tar.xz{,.sig} "${master_mirror_directory}/i686/staging/"
   done
 )
 
-# remove old stage files
+# remove old stage files (these should be only "done" markers, but
+# actually we don't care what it is)
 ls "${work_dir}/package-states" | \
   grep "^${1//./\\.}\(\.[^.]\+\)\{4\}\$" | \
   grep -v "^${1//./\\.}\.$2\.$3\.$4\.[^.]\+\$" | \