[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add script to update pacman database format

[Allan McRae]

On 09/12/10 00:00, Xyne wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> The pacman-db-upgrade script was added to detect old pacman database
>> formats and upgrade them.
>>
>> Currently performs the merging of depends files into desc files in
>> the local database.
>
> When is this expected to be released? I'll need to update perl-xyne-arch to
> handle this and it would be useful if I could insert a versioned dependency to
> prevent any breakage during the transition period.

It has not hit the master git branch yet, but I would expect it to hit 
in the next major pacman release (3.5?) which is probably months away.

> Am I correct in believing that the file format remains the same and that the
> merger is a simple insertion of the depends file into the desc file?

Correct - for the local db.  The sync db format will not change 
(transition period is needed) but note that the sync dbs will not be 
extracted from their tarball any more.

Allan