[pacman-dev] [PATCH] be_files : stores REPLACES and FORCE in desc.

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Fri May 23 10:05:31 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Xavier Chantry <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> repo-add and db_read both assume that REPLACES and FORCE fields are in the
> desc file, so do that for db_write as well (instead of depends file).
>
> Note that db_write is currently only used on the local database. And the
> only purpose of replaces and force in local database is for information
> purpose (available on -Qi operations). So this is not a big problem.
>
> Ref: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/011859.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>




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