On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri 04 Jun 2010 00:24 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> With commit 5dffef78, the repo database always has a symlink >> of the form reponame.db. Use that filename and let libarchive >> determine the compression type. > > Hmm. I was wondering why couldn't pacman be programmed to understand a > compressed repo db with the file extension. If pacman can do it with > packages, then it shouldn't be too hard, should it? I think I'd prefer > keeping the extensions.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. This addresses the problem of transforming [myrepo] Server = http://example.com/foo/bar/baz into "I need to fetch http://example.com/foo/bar/baz/myrepo.db"; -Dan
