[pacman-dev] Downgradability...sort of....

[Jatheendra]

Hi,

If i am not mistaken FS#8585 deals with transactions and rollback and
in case something errors out its rolled back. But here i was trying to
 make a backup for all those people who complain during every kernel
update that they had cleaned their cache and then want to roll back to
the previous version.

I saw FS#11913 on the bugtraker which was a request for this feature
and it seemed easy to implement.

Jatheendra







On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Im trying to add some downgradability magic into pacman .Being quite
>> new to pacman code, i need your help  to identify the possible
>> pitfalls of my approach before trying something.
>>
>> What i plan to do is..
>>
>> In libalpm/remove.c  unlink_file()  [ I guess remove.c is the only
>> place where we are removing files ]
>>
>> replace all unlink(), rename() etc with  copyandunlink , copyandrename
>> etc which will copy the file first into an archive file
>> package-backup.tgs in cache,then do unlink or rename. Then finally
>> include  all the necessary .INSTALL ,PKGINFO ,.CHANGELOG etc and clean
>> up.
>>
>> So even if i do a -Scc i will have a backup of what was installed on
>> my system and can roll back to the previous state.
>
> I suggest you implementing FS#8585 ;-)
>
>> And can sombody please point me to some documentation for libarchive
>> apart from the manpages...
>>
>
> http://code.toofishes.net/
> and README file in git tree.
>
> Bye
>
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