[pacman-dev] Pacman doesn't handle properly the multiple satisfiers, localdb corruption

[ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu]

> About corrupted db, most db are already corrupted, but in a less important
> way : extra required by field (fixed by your upgraderm patch),
>    instead of missing required by fields as it's the case here.
> But so, couldn't we have an option in pacman for repairing requiredby fields
> or something ?
Well, in the future alpm_db_test should do a deeper db check (and try 
to fix errors: for example requiredby fields can be generated from 
depends easily); now it only does very basic "syntax" checking, which 
is a bit confusing for me (consistency check means more IMHO).
Bye, ngaba


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