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kakabaratruskia

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Unknown pacman option.

I tried to make a sysupgrade, but using srcpac, to build the new packages from source. I made a mistake, and instead of running

srcpac -Sybu

i ran

pacman -Sybu

Now, the strange thing is that pacman created the "u" directory in /, and extracted the package databases to that directory. Maybe this is the normal behaviour, and everybody knows about it, but I looked for the -b option in the pacman man page, and could not find any thing similar. Maybe a useful bug?

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And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.

i3839

Member

Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: Unknown pacman option.

See pacman -Sh:

-b, --dbpath <path> set an alternate database location

kakabaratruskia

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: Unknown pacman option.

M... I was feeling like Colombus.

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And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.