pkgfile automatic update
by Simon Marchi
on 1 August 2024
I'm an avid user of pkgfile, to quickly find which package on Arch Linux provides a given file. I sometimes get bitten by the fact that my pkgfile database is out-of-date.
I discovered today (because I saw the word pkgfiled
pass by in an update)
that it's possible to automatically keep it up-to-date:
systemctl enable pkgfile-update.timer
- timer that updates the database daily
systemctl enable pkgfiled.service
- service that watches pacman's list files
(in
/var/lib/pacman/sync
), and updates pkgfile's database whenever pacman's database changes