[pacman-dev] Empty repo databases

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Thu Sep 24 02:52:50 EDT 2009


Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 11:45:53 schrieb Xavier:
> 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

Looks fine to me; and I think we should implement this. The point is that its 
not easy to determine if there is a server/mirror error or if the repo is just 
empty.

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Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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