Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:03:57 +0300 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_delete and modified files Message-ID: <cb5206420601281403m5b005916j1f4c84548052d5a3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060128215142.GA37639@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <cb5206420601281344q125a691cqfdf021012fb5afea@mail.gmail.com> <20060128215142.GA37639@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 1/29/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > 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: > > > > Force removal of the package, even if a dependency > > is recorded or the deinstall or require script fails. > > > > 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. Yes, I see. I might get into pkg_install development some time later. Anyway, thanks for your kind input, guys!
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