[pacman-dev] How does pacman fetch the PKGINFO files for all packages during a --refresh operation

Bozhidar Batsov lordbad at e-card.bg
Tue Jun 5 07:19:26 EDT 2007


Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
> How does pacman fetch the PKGINFO files for all packages during a
> --refresh operation? Is there a way to extract a single file from an
> archive even over the network or are there all store in one single
> location? I'm asking because I'm reimplementing pacman from scratch in
> C# and I was uncertain how I can achieve the refresh the refresh
> optimally and I'm a little short on time, so if you can spare me
> browsing through the source tree I'd be most helpful.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bozhidar
>
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I find the db file I was looking for. Ignore my previous post.




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