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On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:56 +0200 |
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Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> so the package *has to overwrite* files that are not owned by |
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> >> anyone (no package owns them). |
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> > The usual approach to this problem was to have some cleanup code in |
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> > pkg_setup or pkg_preinst that would remove the old files. |
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> Interesting idea - I see two problems: |
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> - how I would get the list of files for already installed version |
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> (the file list can (and will) differ between versions) |
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As PMS doesn't give us any better tools, you can just look at ${ROOT} |
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in pkg_preinst(). |
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> - PM has a manifest file that lists all installed file, it can check |
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> against it, not against live file system, so just removing the files |
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> may not be enough (just my speculations - I'm not sure of this) |
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It is enough in case of Portage. Especially that those files aren't |
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listed in those manifests. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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