The pkgfile package updated today and it said i should run pkgfile --update because the database format has changed. Is it important that I run this command or can i ignore this?
If you use pkgfile to search for files etc. then it is a good idea to have its database updated to correspond to what is available in the repositories.
sudo pkgfile --update
pkgfile has also a systemd timer/service that you can enable if you want the databases be updated automatically.
sudo systemctl enable --now pkgfile-update.timer
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From man pkgfile:
It is recommended to create a daily cron job with this
command to ensure accurate results.
ran sudo pkgfile --update and here is the results, it looks like it worked
[cc@computer ~]$ sudo pkgfile --update
[sudo] password for cc:
:: Updating 4 repos...
download complete: multilib [ 220.9 KiB 557K/s 3 remaining]
download complete: core [ 1301.4 KiB 1859K/s 2 remaining]
download complete: endeavouros [ 139.8 KiB 98.8K/s 1 remaining]
download complete: extra [ 45.2 MiB 7.60M/s 0 remaining]
:: download complete in 5.94s < 46.8 MiB 7.87M/s 4 files >
:: waiting for 1 repo to finish repacking...
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