On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:52:39 -0400 "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/23/07, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
we have
/var/lib/pacman/local/ /var/lib/pacman/remote/current /var/lib/pacman/remote/extra etc...
Wow, this makes a lot of sense. This shouldn't be too hard to implement and even make backward compatible for a bit. In essence all we have to do to make it backward compatible is delete the existing repo directories if it finds them, if we even want to do that. Hell, we can do that in an install script.
Who wants to whip together a patch for this, which I think we can safely include in 3.1?
I can probably do it, it'll just take some time, since I've never used git and I've never really delved into the pacman code. I know where the backend is, and I imagine it'd be easy enough for me to patch in once I have a local pull. There was a thread on this ML about how to grab stuff from git IIRC... I wonder if I can find it again. Otherwise, if you wouldn't mind explaining to a complete git noob how to get started, I'd appreciate that too. ;) -- Travis