[pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

[Xavier]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Xavier schrieb:
>>
>> Before, repo-rm on the last package would leave the last package in
>> the database, which was quite odd.
>> Having an empty file would be odd too, because tar/bsdtar would fail on
>> it.
>
> $ touch foo.db.tar.gz
> $ bsdtar -xf foo.db.tar.gz
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $
>

I tried quite a while ago, I just remembered that at least one of the
two failed :)
It seems gnu tar still fails. And bsdtar could always have changed in
the meantime, I don't know.

Anyway this seems to work for all combination (4) of gnutar/bsdtar, so
it is still my preferred solution :
tar cvzf test.tar.gz -T /dev/null
tar xf test.tar.gz