I have finally put the tools I use to sync my local repo and to create those magic rebuild lists into a git repo. I polished them to increase usability and portability, but they are not really ready to be run e.g. on gerolde. See https://git.archlinux.de/repo-tools.git/tree/ or clone from http://git.archlinux.de/~pierre/repo-tools.git syncrepo is a script I just refactored today to keep my local repo in sync. You can simply change it to sync from any other server. What I am trying here is to sync all db files first to reduce the problems of repos not matching each other. I exclude some files I don't need and the links files I create myself. This script can be run via cron (add >/dev/null to suppress output) createlinks is a script which reads all the links to shared libs from the packages and put them into a database with a format similar to our repo db files. This script works incremental and can be run via cron. I just cleaned it up and added the readelf line from the sodeps pacman branch, which was a little simpler than mine. I only read the files from certain dirs like /usr/lib; so if you have a lib in /usr/share that wont be covered. If you uncomment that "(..)& wait" you can check both arches in parallel. The initial run takes quite long; but I don't know how to speed this up even more (at least when we stay in bash). getpkgbase is a simple script stolen from the db-scripts to get the package base or name from a package file. with sogrep you can check which packages link against a certain soname. This is of course really fast as it literally greps through the link database we create with the script mentioned above. Maybe these scripts are helpful for someone; suggestions or patches are welcome. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre