On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Xavier Chantry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> Pacman's local database format changes with this commit being pushed to >> master: >> >> commit 21833d90e26635fdd2c6af247790a9bf374b4d80 >> Author: Allan McRae <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat Oct 30 15:35:43 2010 +1000 >> >> Merge desc and depends files in local db >> >> >> If you want to run pacman-git you will need to upgrade your pacman database >> format using the conviently named "pacman-db-upgrade" script in the scripts/ >> directory. This is not a particularly reversible operation, so if you run >> this you are stuck with pacman-git until the 3.5 release. >> > > It probably should backup the old database if it doesn't already :) > cd /var/lib/pacman/ ; tar cvzf pacman-localdb.tar.gz local/ > or whatever. > Maybe not in /var/lib/pacman if this is cleaned up by pacman -Sc , after all.
Patches welcome. :P -Dan
