On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > I just saw this: > > allan@mugen ~ >> sudo mv /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db{,.bak} > > allan@mugen ~ >> pacman -Su | wc -l > Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n > 1148 > > That is a lot of copies of: > error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to > open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
I want to say we could leverage my database is valid patches to make this suck less- the first time we check the db for validity (including actual existence) we would throw the error message but be silent from there on out (and/or abort if that is the prudent step to take). -Dan
