Hi all, Im trying to add some downgradability magic into pacman .Being quite new to pacman code, i need your help to identify the possible pitfalls of my approach before trying something.
What i plan to do is..
In libalpm/remove.c unlink_file() [ I guess remove.c is the only place where we are removing files ]
replace all unlink(), rename() etc with copyandunlink , copyandrename etc which will copy the file first into an archive file package-backup.tgs in cache,then do unlink or rename. Then finally include all the necessary .INSTALL ,PKGINFO ,.CHANGELOG etc and clean up.
So even if i do a -Scc i will have a backup of what was installed on my system and can roll back to the previous state.
I suggest you implementing FS#8585 ;-)
And can sombody please point me to some documentation for libarchive apart from the manpages...
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