[pacman-dev] DB-Fix for dup Required-By

[Aaron Griffin]

On 3/30/07, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> While harmless, I found this annoying after a while, so I whipped up a
> script to scan the DB for these discrepancies, collect a list of
> affected packages, then pacman -S them all to fix it up.
>
> I've tested this script a few times on my own system, seems to do the
> job correctly, though one line is a bit of a hack.  ;)
>
> As always, "Use at your own risk!", although I think it's perfectly
> safe to use - the very worst I can imagine that can happen is that
> you'll reinstall a few packages you didn't need to.
>

As a side note.  There was also an bug a while back that set all those
lists to null (well, empty is a better word).  I doubt anyone still
has this problem, except for Roman (he did at one point) and myself.
The packages fix themselves the same way, by reinstalling, but it's
hard to detect.