On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> >>> - download new packages > >> >>> - update db > >> >>> - delete old packages > >> ... > > I must be missing something.. isn't --delete-after good enough? > > you are missing the fact that it will download the database file > before it downloads the package files. > So if I "-Syu" at that time pacman will want to upgrade packages that > are not on the mirror. > > Which is why mirrors must sync the database AFTER syncing the packages. I thought that was exactly what Damjan said: - download all new packages - sync database (or, update db, as he said) - delete old packages I don't know how the mirros sync, but if it is with rsync, I guess it would be a matter of calling it without the delete parameter once, update db, and then calling rsync with the delete parameter set. Would this work? -- Guilherme M. Nogueira "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
