Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:12:22 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgbase and config file merges Message-ID: <C0BD4501-902C-4F7A-92F0-96931D419AC8@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <DEE2B944-F1DB-4BA5-AF6B-144507993A4D@yahoo.com>
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Le 6 mars 2024 19:07:51 GMT+01:00, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> a écrit : >Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org> wrote on >Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:24:18 UTC : > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:59:36AM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote: >> > Automatically overwriting files like passwd is clearly a problem. >> > Preferred solution would be a list, say [never_overwrite] and/or [ask >> > before overwriting] and/or [write diff to /var/db/pkgbase/...] in >> > /etc/defaults/pkgbase specifying existing files that should never be >> > modified without at least a dialog. >> > >> > This plus the cleanup of pkgsave files which should only be written to >> > /var/db/pkgbase/pkgsave/`date +%G%m%d%H%M` should address the blockers >> > to more widespread adoption of packagebase and, ideally, make it >> > mandatory or at least the default option in the next version of FreeBSD. >> > >> this can only happen in the bootstrap phase and not otherwise, in normal usage >> there is always a 3 way merge happening and if the 3 way merge fails there the >> original is preserved and a file.pkgnew is created with the new content. >> >> pkg should always be and remain unattended, once it enter a transaction so there >> is no plan to make it interactive. >> >> I don't understand what you are asking for about the .pkgsave files cleanup. > >I've been using find to check for *.pkgsave files to know to deal with >them if they occur. > >Checking now with find, I did not find any *.pkgnew files. I had not >been aware to look for those. > >But I've discovered .pkgtemp.* as a naming convention and for >it I find: > ># find -x / -name .pkgtemp.\* -print | wc -l > 80 > >So it looks like I've more checking and cleanup to do in general for >my PkgBase experiments. > > >=== >Mark Millard >marklmi at yahoo.com > .pkgtemp. Should never occur except if pkg crashes .pkgsave once you have boostrapped you should not have any. Best regards Bapthome | help
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