Allan McRae wrote: > On 09/12/10 00:00, Xyne wrote: > > Allan McRae wrote: > > > >> The pacman-db-upgrade script was added to detect old pacman database > >> formats and upgrade them. > >> > >> Currently performs the merging of depends files into desc files in > >> the local database. > > > > When is this expected to be released? I'll need to update perl-xyne-arch to > > handle this and it would be useful if I could insert a versioned dependency > > to > > prevent any breakage during the transition period. > > It has not hit the master git branch yet, but I would expect it to hit > in the next major pacman release (3.5?) which is probably months away. > > > Am I correct in believing that the file format remains the same and that the > > merger is a simple insertion of the depends file into the desc file? > > Correct - for the local db. The sync db format will not change > (transition period is needed) but note that the sync dbs will not be > extracted from their tarball any more. > > Allan
Thanks for the warning.