ports/96301: [patch] Upgrade instiki to 0.11.0

[Pav Lucistnik]

Alastair Rankine píše v st 26. 04. 2006 v 21:31 +1000:
> >>> This port leaves one file behind when uninstalled:
> >>>
> >>> /usr/local/instiki/db/production.db.sqlite3
> >>>
> >>> should I add it to the pkg-plist?
> >>
> >> That is the database file for your wiki.
> >>
> >> It's user data, hence deliberately excluded from the pkg-plist.
> >
> > So, what will we do with it? It must not be left behind.
> > I assume there is some kind of empty "default" database in there?
> > That could be safely removed, if it's not modified by the user.
> >
> > Not having it in plist also means, that it will not be installed from
> > package.
> 
> How can the port detect whether the database has been modified by the  
> user? Or to put it another way, how would the port block the deletion  
> of this file on uninstall, if the database had been modified?
> 
> What's the usual resolution in cases like this?

I would suggest two possible solutions

1) Install an empty database as empty.db and compare with production.db
   on deinstall, if the files are identical, delete both

2) Move database into /var/db/instiki where it can be left after
   deinstalation without anyone complaining.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Some programmers are able to write FORTRAN in any language.
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