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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:30:45 -0400
From:      "J. Hellenthal" <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/156396: Make 220.backup-pkgdb cd(1) and backup only the package database.
Message-ID:  <20110415093044.GA91283@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <86fwpjc2ok.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <201104140922.p3E9M246053052__4754.10261792621$1302775251$gmane$org@DataIX.net> <86fwpjc2ok.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:57:15PM +0400, Pan Tsu wrote:
>"J. Hellenthal" <jhell@DataIX.net> writes:
>
>[...]
>> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
>> =20
>>  	new_bak_file=3D`mktemp ${bak_file}-XXXXX`
>> =20
>> -	if tar -cjf "${new_bak_file}" "$pkg_dbdir"; then
>> +	cd $pkg_dbdir/..
>> +	if tar -cjf "${new_bak_file}" "$(basename $pkg_dbdir)"; then
>
>Why not use `-s' (substitution) option of bsdtar(1)?
>
>  if tar -cjf "${new_bak_file}" -s "|$pkg_dbdir||" "$pkg_dbdir"; then
>
>$(basename $pkg_dbdir) is technically wrong as PKG_DBDIR points not to
>/var/db but to /var/db/pkg by default and is not guaranteed to contain
>`pkg' at the tail, e.g.

I think you misunderstood how this works. You should test it...

With a pkg_dbdir pointing to /var/db/pkg basename strips off "/var/db/".
The cd(1) you notice before that line makes sure your in the directory
just before the actual pkg_dbdir so therefore calling tar on $(basename
$pkg_dbdir) tar's up only the actual name of the 'pkg' directory and not
the path before it.

I suppose this could also be achieved simply by:

tar -C $pkg_dbdir/.. -cjf "${new_bak_file}" "$(basename $pkg_dbdir)"

which is equivalent to:

tar -C /var/db/pkg/.. -cvjf /tmp/foo.tbz `basename /var/db/pkg`

'-v' added for show.

But I don't think the author is willing to take any improvements and has
the wrong impression of why the '/..' is where it is and how that
suffices for the same motive behind archiving a direct path.


PS: The PR says this was committed... It was not AFAIK.


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 Regards,

 J. Hellenthal


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