[pacman-dev] [PATCH] [WIP] Extend database upgrade script to handle alpm db version 9

[Andrew Gregory]

On 08/04/14 at 03:43pm, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 03/08/14 15:31, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> > Original-work-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes:
> > * set alternate root with PACROOT environment variable
> > * filter results through grep and sort to remove empty lines and duplicates
> > * add parent directories (duplicates filtered out by sort)
> > * verify that the resolved directory is inside our root
> > * replace longer symlinks first
> > * handle conflict between resolved directory and existing filelist entry
> > 
> 
> This looks fine on first pass to me.   Why do you think this is a WIP?
> Is there something more needing done?
> 
> A

I think it's substantively ready but my bash and awk are not particularly great
and probably in need of some cleanup and the PACROOT variable needs a little
work.  It at least needs to be documented, and I'm considering making it an
option rather than an environment variable and making the default dbpath
relative to it.

apg