[pacman-dev] pacman test-o-rama

Andi Clemens andi.clemens at gmx.net
Wed Mar 21 07:30:37 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:10:03 Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2007/3/21, Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> > > 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...
>
> Yes, /var/lib/pacman.
> No, it's not safe do delete _all_ directories there. DO NOT delete
> /var/lib/pacman/local !!!

Yeah I realized that! ;-)
Now I deleted everything except "local"... will try to reproduce my error now.

Andi

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