Repo-add [custom] database need to REMOVE old packages ? script to do?

I believe it is still needed to create the custom database to use local packages and not have to do pacman -U [full-file-name]
Doing this with repo-add (as mentioned in wiki 'pacman tips' will have old packages added sometimes if there are duplicates.
How to remove older duplicates reliably?
Or is there a way to sync without creating custom database with repo-add. The wiki speaks of: Installing packages from a CD/DVD/iso
without mentioning any requirement of needing a database. I didn't understand how that would be possible just because the files are on DVD etc. I would expect the same 'old files in database' likelihood to exist also and as well cannot see how pacman would sync without a database.
Basically I have tons of duplicate files in my huge copy of files locally. Not really sensible to try to keep it with only current versions so I thought there would be a guru's script to do this.

Two things I attempted to touch on tomk.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Tips
Installing packages from a CD/DVD/iso
I thought there appeared to be no mention of need for a custom database infering that the dvd/CD/iso would sync with pacman -Syu however the files were on there I guess it would be.
Custom local repository
Where this wiki page says in this Custom local repository 'repo-add' paragraph, that there's no way to assure that the latest packages will be added.
The last argument will add all pkg.tar.gz files to the repository, so be careful. If having multiple versions of a package in the directory, it is unclear which one will take precedence and end up in the repository.
As I had a not so understood experience I wondered if there were old packages in there as I got a message saying that local was newer than database or something when I tried to pacman -Syu with this local database I'd created. Something like that anyways, definitely not working right though not assuming I'm accurate in describing or guessing or methodology.
I could be half asleep so apologies for not been my detail-freak self here.
P.S. I started out with TONS of older version when I tried to create a good database.
Last edited by yvonney (2010-06-28 09:01:35)

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