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Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Would pacman ignore custom fields in database files?

If I added a custom fields to a database file, would pacman completely ignore it or could it result in unexpected behavior?

Example: adding this

%FOO%
this
that
whatever

to the end of a desc file in the sync database.

Last edited by Xyne (2009-04-21 06:23:18)

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u_no_hu

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 453

Re: Would pacman ignore custom fields in database files?

From limited experience with pacman code, i think pacman will ignore it. But dont take my word for it.. have a look at libalpm/be_files.c  _alpm_db_read() . That is where it reads the db files..

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