Re: pkgbase and config file merges

On Mar 6, 2024, at 10:12, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Le 6 mars 2024 19:07:51 GMT+01:00, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> a écrit :
>> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org> wrote on
>> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:24:18 UTC :
>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:59:36AM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote:
>>>> Automatically overwriting files like passwd is clearly a problem.
>>>> Preferred solution would be a list, say [never_overwrite] and/or [ask
>>>> before overwriting] and/or [write diff to /var/db/pkgbase/...] in
>>>> /etc/defaults/pkgbase specifying existing files that should never be
>>>> modified without at least a dialog.
>>>> 
>>>> This plus the cleanup of pkgsave files which should only be written to
>>>> /var/db/pkgbase/pkgsave/`date +%G%m%d%H%M` should address the blockers
>>>> to more widespread adoption of packagebase and, ideally, make it
>>>> mandatory or at least the default option in the next version of FreeBSD.
>>>> 
>>> this can only happen in the bootstrap phase and not otherwise, in normal usage
>>> there is always a 3 way merge happening and if the 3 way merge fails there the
>>> original is preserved and a file.pkgnew is created with the new content.
>>> 
>>> pkg should always be and remain unattended, once it enter a transaction so there
>>> is no plan to make it interactive.
>>> 
>>> I don't understand what you are asking for about the .pkgsave files cleanup.
>> 
>> I've been using find to check for *.pkgsave files to know to deal with
>> them if they occur.
>> 
>> Checking now with find, I did not find any *.pkgnew files. I had not
>> been aware to look for those.
>> 
>> But I've discovered .pkgtemp.* as a naming convention and for
>> it I find:
>> 
>> # find -x / -name .pkgtemp.\* -print | wc -l
>>     80
>> 
>> So it looks like I've more checking and cleanup to do in general for
>> my PkgBase experiments.
>> 
>> 
>> ===
>> Mark Millard
>> marklmi at yahoo.com
>> 
> 
> .pkgtemp. Should never occur except if pkg crashes

I looked at the file dates/times: All from 2024-Jan-20. That would
be when I was discovering that use of the RPi5 EDK2 draft ends up
with unreliable USB file I/O. So it fits your description.

> .pkgsave once you have boostrapped you should not have any.
> 


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com