[pacman-dev] Database consistency checking

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 06:38:36 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:40:02PM +0200, ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu wrote:
> Well, I haven't read your code yet (but I will;-); but you could use 
> pseudo packages (created from the db) and use libalpm functions, for 
> example, alpm_checkdeps for dependency checking and 
> _alpm_pkg_update_requiredby (and then a comparison with the db) for 
> requiredby testing; and this would be independent from libalpm version.

Do you mean the same pseudo target code that was removed :
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-July/008911.html ?

Or the the same idea but implemented differently ?




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