[arch-general] pacman 4 and "empty" repos

[Allan McRae]

On 20/01/12 22:11, Magnus Therning wrote:
> In ArchHaskell we are heavy users of mkarchroot/makechrootpkg for
> building packages.  When setting up the root chroot pacman is
> configured with a local db located at `/repo`, this makes already
> built packages available as dependencies later on in a multi-package
> build, and by using makechrootpkg's '-d' argument it all happens
> automatically.
> 
> With pacman 3 this didn't cause troubles besides a few warning
> messages about [repo] not being available (the db isn't created until
> the first package is built).  Pacman 4 doesn't seem as forgiving
> though--it fails completely unless the db exists (though it may be
> completely empty).
> 
> Is there some way to coerce pacman 4 into being as forgiving as pacman 3 was?
> 
> /M
> 

touch /repo/repo.db