On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Pacman's local database format changes with this commit being pushed to > master: > > commit 21833d90e26635fdd2c6af247790a9bf374b4d80 > Author: Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> > Date: Sat Oct 30 15:35:43 2010 +1000 > > Merge desc and depends files in local db > > > If you want to run pacman-git you will need to upgrade your pacman database > format using the conviently named "pacman-db-upgrade" script in the scripts/ > directory. This is not a particularly reversible operation, so if you run > this you are stuck with pacman-git until the 3.5 release. >
It probably should backup the old database if it doesn't already :) cd /var/lib/pacman/ ; tar cvzf pacman-localdb.tar.gz local/ or whatever. Maybe not in /var/lib/pacman if this is cleaned up by pacman -Sc , after all.