[pacman-dev] delta support in libalpm

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> find_pkgentry()
> {
>  local pkgname=$1
>  local pkgentry
>  for pkgentry in $gstmpdir/$pkgname*; do
>    name=${pkgentry##*/}
>    if [ "${name%-*-*}" = "$pkgname" ]; then
>      echo $pkgentry
>      return 0
>    fi
>  done
>  return 1
> }

Is this doable without unpacking the DB? Perhaps using bsdtar -tf ?