[pacman-dev] When pacman reads local database files

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Oct 23 14:00:40 UTC 2016


On 23/10/16 13:37, Allan McRae wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> We have had some discussion about that local database and how it could
> be improved.
> 
> I thought it would be useful to have a summary of what options touch
> what files in the local db:
> 
> 
> -R <pkg>
> all "desc" files
> single "files" file

Correcting a mistake here.  All "files" files are read in the case of
trying to remove an empty directory.

A


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