On 03/26/19 at 10:42pm, Erich Eckner wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Allan McRae wrote: > > > On 27/3/19 7:20 am, Erich Eckner wrote: > >> https://mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/core.links.tar.gz > >> > >> It contains (as far as I can tell) the names and versions of libraries > >> against which binaries in a package are linked. > > > > This is not a repo, so should not be managed by repo-add. > > Thanks for your answer, but: > > Is the *.files.tar.gz a "repo"?
Yes. The .files databases are complete repos with full package information capable of being used by alpm; they are not just lists of package files. People can use .files databases exclusively without ever needing to touch the "normal" databases.
