[pacman-dev] dbscripts status

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 27, 2008 4:59 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are there so many files there :
> http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=dbscripts.git;a=tree
>
> pkgdb, pkgdb1, pkgdb2-add.c, pkgdb2-del.c, pkgdb2.c, updatesync-many.
> These names don't really speak to me.
> Is updatesync-many the only one developers use directly? And what are
> all the pkgdb* stuff for?
> Well, at least the three c programs seem to interact with the mysql
> database.

Erm... the DB scripts are both pacman related and website related. I
don't even know if this conversation is valid on the pacman-dev list
as only a small portion of what the do is related to pacman. CVS
tagging, mysql access, and mirror locations are not really pacman-ish.

> But that doesn't explain how all the scripts / programs interact
> together, and how hard it would be to make them use repo-add instead.

It's hard. These scripts suck and need a complete rewrite. I have it
planned, and if you are interested, we could talk about it a bit
off-list (as I said, it's not really pacman oriented. It might make
more sense on the arch-dev-public list).