On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
What about pacman -Si?
