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

[Allan McRae]

On 10/3/20 5:35 am, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well...  thinking about this some more, at the end of the patch the
current alpm_db_update() and alpm_dbs_update() should be renamed to take
its place.   All our API for db operations is of the form alpm_db_... so
we should keep it that way.

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