[pacman-dev] [PATCH] db_register: Unlink DbPath/database, if it is not a directory

[Xavier]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> >From 884155e03bf20f1cca880f39848423091729f6cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:35:45 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] db_register: Unlink DbPath/database, if it is not a directory
>
> We had a check for this case, but we didn't handle it at all (neither error,
> nor fix), we also had a TODO in the code.
>
> For example, if user has an "unstable" regular file instead of "unstable"
> directory (FS#12148), from now on pacman will remove that file (and print
> a warning message). Before this patch pacman just stopped with "could not
> register database" error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>

Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc at gmail.com>