>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Originator: J. Hellenthal
>Organization:
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: Make 220.backup-pkgdb cd(1) and backup only the package
>database.
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Category: conf
>Class: change-request
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0 r220564M Tue Apr 12 10:02:17 EDT 2011 i386
>Description:
Currently the backup script archives a full path starting from '/' and then
strips the leading slash off of the path which is correct. Upon extraction that
full path without the leading slash is extracted in the current directory as
var/db/pkg/<contents> with the first two and possibly more directories left
empty.
If a user has a different PKG_DBDIR as designated by ports(7) that is larger
this can lead to frustration with the length of emptiness in the archive with
the leading paths.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run ( /etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb ) and extract the archive located in
/var/backups/
>Fix:
This patch makes 220.backup-pkgdb respectifully cd to where the pkgdb is
located and create the archive from the relative path so there is only the
pkgdb directory and contents upon extraction.
http://patches.jhell.googlecode.com/hg/220.backup-pkgdb_cd.patch?r=f60df831e62d64fd336b6c6612a6619eaf17a17f
diff -r aa37d382121b -r 3fbae1ba29a4 etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb
--- a/etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb
+++ b/etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
new_bak_file=`mktemp ${bak_file}-XXXXX`
- if tar -cjf "${new_bak_file}" "$pkg_dbdir"; then
+ cd $pkg_dbdir/..
+ if tar -cjf "${new_bak_file}" "$(basename $pkg_dbdir)"; then
chmod 644 "${new_bak_file}"
if [ -e "${bak_file}.2" -a -e "${bak_file}" ]; then
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