[pacman-dev] Restore .pacsave file if present - WORK IN PROGRESS

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 13, 2008 6:48 AM, Allan McRae <allan.mcrae at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In continuing to misjudge what would be an easy bug to fix I had an
> attempt at FS#8645 - Restore pacsaves on install [1]. The attached patch
> is a definite work in progress.
>
> I have two queries:
> 1) Would it be better to notify the user of the restore or to query
> them.  Either way they will get a notification about the new file being
> installed to .pacsave.  I'm leaning on query here because that would
> allow the user to stop really old files being restored.
>
> 2) Should I worry about the case where a file used to be backed up but
> is not now.  This seems an edge case but would result in the file being
> restored then overwritten (I think.... I need to look at that further).

Hrm, what happens if, I install foo-1.0, uninstall it, then later
reinstall foo-2.0 which has a totally different config format. We
wouldn't be storing the OLD md5sum for the config file if a package is
uninstalled.

Perhaps we should actually ask the user, due to that case.