On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:42:56 +0200 Krzysztof Pawlik <nelch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> so the package *has to overwrite* files that are not owned by
> >> anyone (no package owns them).
> >
> > The usual approach to this problem was to have some cleanup code in
> > pkg_setup or pkg_preinst that would remove the old files.
>
> Interesting idea - I see two problems:
> - how I would get the list of files for already installed version
> (the file list can (and will) differ between versions)
As PMS doesn't give us any better tools, you can just look at ${ROOT}
in pkg_preinst().
> - PM has a manifest file that lists all installed file, it can check
> against it, not against live file system, so just removing the files
> may not be enough (just my speculations - I'm not sure of this)
It is enough in case of Portage. Especially that those files aren't
listed in those manifests.
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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