[pacman-dev] Changing how repo dbs are updated

[Yaro Kasear]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:54 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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
> 

I'm not a pacman developer, but wasn't there to be a method for updating
packages via binary patches?