[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Introduce alpm_dbs_update() function for parallel db updates

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:15 PM Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/3/20 6:55 am, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 6:05 AM Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> >> I got to here.  Seems a lot of this is duplicated from the single db
> >> path.  If both are going to coexist, can we do some refactoring?
> >
> > It depends whether we want to keep the API backward-compatible. If it
> > is fine to break one in pacman 6 release then we can just remove the
> > function from ALPM API. Otherwise alpm_db_update() need to be
> > reimplemented using alpm_dbs_update() functionality.
> >
>
> I was thinking that a non-pacman frontend may want to update a single
> db.  But I suppose they just pass a single db to alpm_dbs_update().

Yep. Passing a single element list to alpm_dbs_update() is exact equivalent of
alpm_db_update() functionality.

>
> So, I'm OK with the temporary code duplication followed by change of API
> for 6.0.

Ok. I will remove alpm_db_update() at the end of this patch series.