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StefanLiebenberg

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From: Somerset West, South Africa

Registered: 2009-07-24

Posts: 12

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How do I modify the database

I'd like to change the install reason to "explicit" for one of my packages, without doing a

pacman -S $package_name

or re-installing the package...

Is this posible?

See Unix SE Question for refference.

Last edited by StefanLiebenberg (2010-09-14 10:31:26)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: How do I modify the database

Apart from '--asexplicit' I don't see any way.

xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 292

Re: How do I modify the database

There is a new -D / --database operation since pacman 3.4:

-D, --database
           Modify the package database. This options allows you to modify certain attributes of the installed packages in pacman's database. At the moment, you can only change
           the install reason using --asdeps and --asexplicit options.

pacman -D --asexplicit <pkgs>

toffyrn

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 221

Re: How do I modify the database

man pacman.

Check out the -D switch

Edit: *damn* someone beat me to the line...

Last edited by toffyrn (2010-09-14 11:12:01)