rebase: a pacman database synchronization tool

MindTooth · 2009-08-18 21:50:20

Will do you a complete rewrite? To write it proper this time around I mean.

Birger

xduugu · 2009-08-18 23:04:58

Wow, that was fast. Thanks, it makes a huge difference for me when I do not have to download a 2mb database again and again.

Didn't notice any problems so far, but I will report back if one occurs.

xduugu · 2009-10-02 15:05:05

Thanks, again. I didn't noticed any problem so far using the --by-lastupdate option.

But another small issue I noticed is the database lock. rebase neither sets a lock when updating the database (although there already are subroutines for locking/unlocking the db) nor it respects existing locks. It's probably a good idea to correct this behavior.

Xyne · 2009-10-03 11:54:41

I've (re-?)added database locking.* Thanks, xduugu.

* That surprised me. I really thought that I had already added that functionality. Either I got distracted after writing the subroutines or I refactored the run subroutine and forgot to re-add them. Meh.

aheaume · 2010-02-12 13:16:58

Apparently, the --no-color option doesn't work, the output is still colored, using 4.0-1 from [xyne-any].
Is it the case for you as well ?

edit: I did some further tests, and I can't get --no-color, --silent and --log to work.

Last edited by aheaume (2010-02-12 13:22:07)

Xyne · 2010-02-13 12:30:35

They should all work with perl-xyne-arch>=2010.02.13.3.

forkboy · 2010-05-23 17:09:56

Not sure if this is a bug but didn't see it documented anywhere, rebase doesn't do anything if mirrorlist contains only ftp repos, it has to have http.

Ogion · 2010-05-23 17:14:21

I just saw i haven't commented yet. Thanks for this Xyne, i use it every day (and for quite a while now too).

Ogion

Xyne · 2010-05-24 20:46:19

@forkboy
I have no problem with FTP servers here. I just tested it by removing all HTTP servers and rebase still worked. Try using a different FTP server.

@Ogion

forkboy · 2010-05-24 21:00:15

Xyne wrote:

@forkboy
I have no problem with FTP servers here. I just tested it by removing all HTTP servers and rebase still worked. Try using a different FTP server.

I tried a few more and you are right they do work, apart from the heanet ftp server, which is the one I normally use. Strange as pacman -Sy works, suppose its no big deal and I can just use the http server.

Let me also take this chance to thankyou, another big fan of your work here. (esp. bauerbill, rebase and a script from you in the paconky thread)

Xyne · 2010-05-24 21:12:10

forkboy wrote:

I tried a few more and you are right they do work, apart from the heanet ftp server, which is the one I normally use. Strange as pacman -Sy works, suppose its no big deal and I can just use the http server.

It might have something to do with passive FTP settings etc. I use Perl's LWP::Simple for downloading the database archives and it usually "just works" without further configuration. If this were a general FTP issue then I would look into it but in this case it seems that the settings on that server are to blame.

forkboy wrote:

Let me also take this chance to thankyou, another big fan of your work here. (esp. bauerbill, rebase and a script from you in the paconky thread)

forkboy · 2010-06-05 19:58:57

I see that FS#15198 will be implemented in pacman 3.4, will this make rebase redundant?

Xyne · 2010-06-06 19:34:09

forkboy wrote:

I see that FS#15198 will be implemented in pacman 3.4, will this make rebase redundant?

Partially, yes. I think rebase will still display more information about changes to the database, but for most users there will probably be no reason to continue using it.

Ogion · 2010-06-06 20:29:21

I for one quite like the little table on what has been added, updated or removed

Ogion

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