[arch-dev-public] Removing *.db.tar.gz.old files?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 23:55:23 CET 2010


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am just wondering if we really need those *.old backup files that the
> dbscripts create. Even if something really went wrong. the old file most
> likely wont match the package set anyway and we could easily recreate it using
> repo-add.
>
> So, any objection to remove those files and their creation from dbscripts?

Sounds like a good idea to me. I think keeping them around is moot now
that we move things to package-cleanup anyway. A fix for anything
going wrong would be to re-add something from package-cleanup


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