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tntcoda

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Registered: 2007-07-24

Posts: 115

Pacman local database recovery

Hi,

So my pacman database @ /var/lib/pacman/local has been killed, it's probably my fault but pacman-cage certainly didn't help

Anyway, if i use the recovery method outlined here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_database will I be screwed if the reconstructed database contains newer versions than what I actually have installed? For example, my database broke a few days ago and quite a bit of newer software has hit the mirrors since then as far as I can tell the recovery scripts dont or can't account for that?

Maybe it would be easier for me to start from scratch and reinstall (without pacman-cage this time...)?

Thanks

rockin turtle

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From: Montana, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 227

Re: Pacman local database recovery

I've never run the recovery technique you've linked to, but from what it describes, it reads the pacman log file on your machine to generate a list of packages.  I really don't see how the list it builds could be anything other than the versions that are actually installed on your machine.

I would go ahead and attempt the procedure.  If that fails, then go ahead and re-install.