[pacman-dev] Suggestion: Move local db to a different location

[Xavier]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Travis Willard wrote:
> Here's a quick suggestion - far too many times I've seen people blow away
> their entire /var/lib/pacman/ folder in hopes of getting rid some error
> message or another, only to realize that pacman ALSO stores its
> locally-installed info there too and that they're now, essentially, screwed as
> far as pacman is concerned.  Can we put this local info in a different place,
> or at least separate it from the remote db info a little more clearly?  
> 
> Like, for example, instead of the current set up of
> 
> /var/lib/pacman/local
> /var/lib/pacman/current
> /var/lib/pacman/extra
> etc...
> 
> we have
> 
> /var/lib/pacman/local/
> /var/lib/pacman/remote/current
> /var/lib/pacman/remote/extra
> etc...
> 
> This structure, to me, makes more sense, since the "local" repo is a totally
> different beast from the remote repo info.  This also allows the creation of a
> sync-able 'local' repo, like
> 
> [local]
> http://localhost:8080/path/to/local/repo
> 
> in pacman.conf without conflicting names.
> 
> If nobody has any objections, I suppose I could hack a patch into the files
> backend that would do this, and possibly move from the current structure to
> the new one if it detects the old structure.
> 
> In addition, those adventurous souls who like rm -r can be told to just rm -r
> /var/lib/pacman/remote and that will get rid of all remote repo information,
> which can be freshly obtained with pacman -Sy.  I'm not trying to make it
> idiot-proof, but a clearer boundary between the local info, which should never
> be touched at the command line unless you really know what you're doing, and
> the remote stuff, that you can screw over until the cows come home and, in the
> end, just run pacman -Sy to get it all back.
> 

I like this idea.
Just today again, on irc, an user had done that again,
while trying to troubleshoot some problems.