[pacman-dev] Changing how repo dbs are updated

[Allan McRae]

On 02/12/10 00:40, Jeremiah Dodds wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>
>>
>> 3) pacman -Syy behavior.  Instead of adding a "force" flag to overwrite the
>> old database, would it be better to just delete the old database first?
>>   Currently, if you use pacman -Syy and a database download fails, you are
>> left with the old sync database you told pacman to get rid of. Is leaving
>> pacman with no database for that repo a better solution?
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
> I'm not currently very familiar with pacmans codebase or operations on the
> dev side, but would it be better to backup the existing db, overwrite the
> existing db, and then delete the old db? That way if a database download
> fails, it can be rolled back.
>

That is essentially what I proposed for #1 and #2 in my original email. 
  The point with "-Syy" is that you have said you really do not what the 
old database, so is keeping it as a fallback the correct thing to do in 
this case?

Allan