[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Readd some symlink checking in file conflict code

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> My opinion about fileconflict check, that it is really fast, but it has
>> some bugs (most important: trans001.py). I think we should decide if we
>> want to implement FS#8585 *soon* or not, that would solve most of these
>> issues. If we want, I don't think we should waste too much effort to
>> this to-be-removed fileconflict check part.
>>
>
> I share your opinion. But I can't make that decision.

I think we should just put some jury-rigged, hopefully passes both 003
and 004 code in here and really attempt to fix this on the larger
scale post-3.2. Xavier, would a revert of my "useless check" patch
solve the problem for now?

-Dan