[arch-general] preserve db tarballs

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 03/29/2010 01:40 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> when the files like core.db.tar.gz are downloaded they aren't
> preserved right? is there any way to configure pacman to preserve
> them?
>
> my problem is that I've switched to using wget and that now these are
> always downloaded... out of date or not. I imagine it's because wget
> doesn't actually have a file to check because they aren't preserved. I
> use wget because I throttle the download, I can easily fill my ADSL.
>

I don't think its possible.

I have a idea. I'm not sure if the downloaded db files are extracted 
into the sync folder.

If it is, you can use a script to sync, recreating the db.tar.gz files 
from the sync directory before running pacman -Sy.

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