[pacman-dev] Backend DB [was: Hypotetic pacman's db structure]

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/11/10, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On Nov 9, 2007 4:10 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> > and finally one more argument for the current implementation: several
> > times i had a hdd crash when parts of the pacman db was affected during
> > fsck. and it was easy to solve. pacman -Qt, it printed 3 packages,
> > reinstall, and you're ready. afaik none of the single-file
> > implementations have this advantage
>
> I know. I really like the plain text approach. It's very elegant.
> Maybe using something similar to git's packs may help us here. I will
> look into it.
>

I'd like to resurrect this thread:
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-April/008163.html
(even older is here:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2006-March/005702.html)
;-)

I think it would be a nice change for 3.2.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)