[pacman-dev] should repo-add handle *.links.db?

[Erich Eckner]

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On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Allan McRae wrote:

> On 27/3/19 7:20 am, Erich Eckner wrote:
>> https://mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/core.links.tar.gz
>>
>> It contains (as far as I can tell) the names and versions of libraries
>> against which binaries in a package are linked.
>
> This is not a repo, so should not be managed by repo-add.

Thanks for your answer, but:

Is the *.files.tar.gz a "repo"?

My interpretaion (so far) was, that the *.files.tar.gz and *.links.tar.gz 
files are caches for search accellerations inside the repo (the first for 
"who owns that file" and the second for "who links against that file") - 
is this not the case?

Also note, that managing the *.links.tar.gz file with repo-add would have 
benefits from a cleanness point of view: currently it's created 
asynchronously but it could be created synchronously (e.g. *.db.tar.gz, 
*.files.tar.gz and *.links.tar.gz would be always in-sync).

Furthermore, each downstream distribution wanting to have sogrep 
needs to implement the createlinks script asynchronously, too. This would 
become obsolete if it was part of repo-add.

Cheers,
Erich

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