[pacman-dev] When Backup has no effect...

[Nagy Gabor]

> ---upgrade044.py---
> self.description = "Backup file relocation (package split)"
> 
> lp = pmpkg("foo")
> lp.files = ["etc/foo.cfg*"]
> lp.backup = ["etc/foo.cfg"]
> self.addpkg2db("local", lp)
> 
> p1 = pmpkg("foo", "1.0-2")
> self.addpkg(p1)
> 
> p2 = pmpkg("libfoo", "1.0-2")
> p2.files = ["etc/foo.cfg**"]
> p2.backup = ["etc/foo.cfg"]
> self.addpkg(p2)
> 
> self.filesystem = ["etc/foo.cfg"]
> 
> self.args = "-U %s" % " ".join([p.filename() for p in p1, p2])
> 
> self.addrule("PKG_VERSION=foo|1.0-2")
> self.addrule("PKG_VERSION=libfoo|1.0-2")
> self.addrule("!FILE_PACSAVE=etc/foo.cfg")
> self.addrule("FILE_PACNEW=etc/foo.cfg")
> self.addrule("FILE_EXIST=etc/foo.cfg") 
> ----------

A bit more problematic issue:
If you remove the p2.backup line, etc/foo.cfg will be simply overwritten!

So if a file changes owner and leaves backup, the old backup field has no
effect. This is still an edge case, but this shouldn't happen.

Bye


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