[pacman-dev] [PATCH] FS#7484 - pacman clobbers directory symlinks.

[Xavier]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:24:23AM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
> Can we do an early loop of the filelist in order to check these kind
> of things, before we start actually extracting files? Perhaps when we
> are verifying the archive integrity (which is during the package
> loading process), although I think this would break a few abstraction
> barriers so that isn't the best solution either.
> 


Don't we already have the filesystem conflict check in conflict.c for this?
Actually, I saw just wondering how it could work, since we didn't look at the
new files from the archive yet. But I forgot about the .FILELIST file, that's
probably what is used.

Maybe it could also help here to have .FILELIST extended, like Andrew suggested in
another mail.