Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:36:31 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org>, "manu@freebsd.org" <manu@freebsd.org> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=2Epkgnew_even_if_files_didn=E2=80=99t_previously_exist?= Message-ID: <CAOc73CCpPOBn6VWAKXtuG=N7L_q7Onfm2mcs9QhDTgsZpbr0Kw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone, Recently the default behaviour of pkg (or pkgbase?) was changed to install any new files with a .pkgnew suffix. My understand is that this was introduced to ensure pkg does not overwrite any existing files that were not previously managed by pkg. However, the current behaviour is that even if there was no existing file, new files are still only being installed with the .pkgnew suffix. As the sysadmin I then have to go looking for any .pkgnew files and remove the suffix - this would be good to avoid overwriting existing files, but feels over the top where no such file exists. To me, this feels like the incorrect behaviour. Can I please ask - is this a deliberate functionality, and if so, why? Thanks. Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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