[aur-general] Fixing a package with broken config symlinks
Florian Bruhin
me at the-compiler.org
Wed Jun 3 08:23:54 UTC 2015
Hi,
* Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> [2015-06-03 09:28:44 +0200]:
> I'd like to correct this situation in an update, but that update will
> of course overwrite /usr/share/webapps/foo with the new version (i.e.
> the new symlink) and nuke the user's current config.
Thanks to agregory's help in IRC I figured out a way which swaps the
files using pre_upgrade() in the install script:
https://github.com/The-Compiler/pkgbuild/commit/fe33593decc2879bdfa6a6996333d4338a5dd3b9
Does this look good? It seems to work fine from what I tested.
Florian
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