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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Nov 10, 2007 6:33 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

Those are totally unrelated.... I mean, they're important, sure, but
they're not what we're talking about here.