FS#19189 - add nodelete db archive option to pacman

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Caleb Cushing (xenoterracide) - Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 03:45 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 08 July 2010, 05:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

when pacman downloads a db archive it extracts and removes (or extracts in a way that doesn't preserve). For clarity I'm talking like core.db.tar.gz. This is ok with default pacman setup because somehow pacman has another timestamp (or something) to check. This doesn't work if you change the download manager. I switched to wget because I need download throttling but now it will download all these files whether an update is available or not. Preserving the files would allow the timestamp to be checked on the remote.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 08 July 2010, 05:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  DB files are kept as of 3.4, see /var/lib/pacman/
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 04:57 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Community Packages → Pacman)
Moving to the correct section... Community packages is not even close!

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