Re: pkgsave cleanup

For those who are concerned about backup files being left in non-backup
directories this small script will cleanup .pkgsave files:


   DBPATH=/var/db/pkgsave/`date +%G%m%d%H%M`
   if [ ! -d $DBPATH ]; then
       mkdir -p $DBPATH
   fi
   for f in `find / -type f -name \*.pkgsave` ; do
       fori="`echo $f | sed 's/.pkgsave//'`"
       diff $f $fori >/dev/null 2>&1
       if [ $? = 0 ]; then
           rm -f $f
       else
           oripath="`dirname $f`"
           if [ ! -d $DBPATH/$oripath ]; then
               mkdir -p $DBPATH/$oripath
           fi
           mv -f $f $DBPATH/$oripath
       fi
   done


> Wondering if anyone has a patch (for a make flag) to prevent the
> creation of .pkgsave files in the same directory as the original?  Would
> be ideal to create a tree under say /var/db/pkgsave for these (and a
> flag to prevent the rotation of system-critical files such as
> master.passwd).
>
> Other than a small pkgsave manual intervention we're up and running
> 14.0-RELEASE with a packaged base and no issues!
>
> Roger
>