repo-add -f function - about the included "files" list

flamelab · 2011-03-26 20:41:48

Does somebody know how (with which tool) the -f (files) list addition can be parsed ?

Till now I knew about the files.tar.gz tarball on the repos was being used by pkgfile. The new list, generated by repo-add -f from which tool is it used ?

Last edited by flamelab (2011-03-26 20:42:12)

Allan · 2011-03-26 20:48:30

nothing yet as far as I know.

flamelab · 2011-03-26 21:02:28

So it's just there so that it would be used by pacman related tools in the future (like pkgfile) ?

skodabenz · 2011-03-27 02:41:50

I think it will be useful to find which package provides a library, for package currently NOT installed in the system which means

sudo pacman -Qo /usr/lib/****

will not work. Currently we need to use pkgfile to get that info, like in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 34#p907934 .

Allan · 2011-03-27 05:52:50

I doubt the database containing the filelist will become the default distributed by Arch as it is about 10x larger...

skodabenz · 2011-03-27 06:12:29

Allan wrote:

I doubt the database containing the filelist will become the default distributed by Arch as it is about 10x larger...

How about using repo.db.tar.xz instead of gz? - to compensate for 10x increase in database file size.

Allan · 2011-03-27 06:19:43

We can... but it will require waiting for everyone to get to pacman-3.5 (which looks for a file <repo>.db so the extension does not matter). The at least requires new official install media released and probably a 6 month to a year wait.

Also, the size savings with .xz nowhere near compensate for the 10X increase.

toofishes · 2011-03-28 00:49:47

Allan wrote:

Also, the size savings with .xz nowhere near compensate for the 10X increase.

And the speed loss makes the switch not worth it.

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repo-add -f function - about the included "files" list

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