Everyone, The commits Allan wrote and I just pushed change the local database format. depends no longer exists; everything is now in desc. Provided in the code is a 'pacman-db-upgrade' script to help you guys out if you upgrade, so be sure to run it if running pacman-git.
-Dan On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was > generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing > the project "The official pacman repository". > > commit d98bacd4ec4289750e740b2dff8c4adaaa7a028a > Author: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > Date: Wed Dec 8 22:16:37 2010 +1000 > > Add script to update pacman database format > > The pacman-db-upgrade script was added to detect old pacman database > formats and upgrade them. > > Currently performs the merging of depends files into desc files in > the local database. > > Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[email protected]> > > commit 21833d90e26635fdd2c6af247790a9bf374b4d80 > Author: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Oct 30 15:35:43 2010 +1000 > > Merge desc and depends files in local db > > Whenever depends is needed from the local db, so is desc. The only > disadvantage to merging them is the additional time taken to read the > depends entries when they are not needed. As depends is in general > relatively small, the additional time taken to read it in will be > negligable. Also, merging these files will speed up local database > access due to less file seeks. > > Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[email protected]>
