[pacman-dev] Warning to pacman-git users - database format change

[Allan McRae]

On 13/12/10 20:06, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 13/12/10 19:46, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 13.12.2010 05:19, schrieb Allan McRae:
>>> Pacman's local database format changes with this commit being pushed to
>>> master:
>>>
>>> commit 21833d90e26635fdd2c6af247790a9bf374b4d80
>>> Author: Allan McRae<allan at 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.
>>>
>>> Note that various scripts rely on the old database format. That
>>> includes namcap (which Dan is already fixing!).
>>
>> Will you add a patch to pacman 3.5 to do this conversion automatically
>> if needed ("You are using an old database format. Do you want to run
>> pacman-db-update to convert to the new format? [Y/n]")? It would
>> probably save us from lots of headaches.
>>
>
> I assume it will be done automatically in the post_upgrade script.

I have just been pointed out that this will not work so well...   We 
check pacman is not running in the pacman-db-upgrade script, so it can 
not run in post_upgrade.

Allan