Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:51:42 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: pkg_delete and modified files Message-ID: <20060128215142.GA37639@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420601281344q125a691cqfdf021012fb5afea@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420601281344q125a691cqfdf021012fb5afea@mail.gmail.com>
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--u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:44:50AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > Looking for a solution to the problem we stumbled upon, > [which was keeping many modified files without the > cmp trick described in the porter's handbook] > I gave pkg_install/* sources a glance and now I'm > thinking about a quick fix. The -f flag causes files to be > deleted even in case of a checksum mismatch. In fact > the -f flag is meant for something slightly else: >=20 > Force removal of the package, even if a dependency > is recorded or the deinstall or require script fails. >=20 > So I'm thinking about another flag (like -F or a second > -f) to control the behavior with modified files. I think that > keeping them should be a default. I can't think of a > thing that it will break, maybe you can. The cmp trick > will still work. And it only takes a couple of lines to > implement. We can't do this by default for all ports because a lot of ports install files that are *supposed* to be modified by other ports (e.g. gettext), so those files would never get removed. I think you'd need to have some more fine-grained method to control this on a per-file basis. Kris --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD2+duWry0BWjoQKURAitrAKCTRcJ3/9IMucjloCmfCMe+4XDePACfaakA Dg5fqbRUKItc5FgHvBWknoI= =bDer -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24--
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