[pacman-dev] pacman test-o-rama

Andi Clemens andi.clemens at gmx.net
Wed Mar 21 07:24:51 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:05:30 Andi Clemens wrote:
> > It happened to me before, but it was due to corrupted db by pacman2 or
> > one of early pacman3 versions.
> >
> > Can you reproduce it after this?:
> > rm -rf /var/pacman/lib/{current,extra}
> > pacman -Sy
>
> I guess you mean /var/lib/pacman/.... ?
>
> Is it safe to delete all directories within that dir?
> I will make a copy and try it out...
>
> Andi

Ok now I deleted the content of "/var/lib/pacman" and pacman seems to be 
broken! Wenn I do a "pacman -Syuw", it says my system is up to date, but I 
know that I had to install 200 MB of new updates... so I guess this was a bad 
idea? 
Good for me I did a backup...

Andi


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