[pacman-dev] gensync to create repo db with old-style-named packages

[Andrew Fyfe]

Paul Mattal wrote:
> Is it possible to use gensync or any other tool in pacman3 to
> generate a db from scratch from old-style-named packages? (without
> the -arch)
> 
> I'm having a hard time succeeding at doing that at all. Is there
> some new tool that will let me generate a new repo db?
> 
> - P
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Use repo-add: repo-add <repo-name>.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.gz

That'll add all package files in the current directory to 
<repo-name>.db.tar.gz

Andrew