On Thu 03 Jun 2010 10:02 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > 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";
Aah right. I was confused about this. Thanks for the clarification.
