On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 05:36:17PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:52:45 -0600, "Aaron Griffin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> the recent version of pacman (repo-add) stores information about > >> optdepends > >> in the db files. It would be great if we could regenerate the db-files > >> for > >> all repos. > >> > >> Do you think that the following might work? > >> > >> rm *.db.tar.gz > >> repo-add $repo.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.gz > >> > >> Pierre > >> > >> PS: I could do it for core, extra and testing (community needs to be > done > >> by someone else). > > > > That sounds fine, but can you mv the old db rather than rm it? > > > > OK, I ust did it. The old db files are moved to *~. I hope I did not break > too much. Could someone with access do the same with the community repo?
How useful is it to add optdepends in the repo DB? They aren't necessarily critical to a package's installation or operation. When the package is installed the user is informed about them anyways. That's the only time I can think of that optdepends become useful.
