conf/156396: Make 220.backup-pkgdb cd(1) and backup only the package database.

[J. Hellenthal]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:07:23PM +0000, dougb at freebsd.org wrote:
>Synopsis: Make 220.backup-pkgdb cd(1) and backup only the package database.
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>State-Changed-By: dougb
>State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 14 19:04:01 UTC 2011
>State-Changed-Why: 
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>Thank you for your interest in this issue. However, it's safer to back up
>from the absolute path for a variety of reasons, especially because there
>may be symlinks involved in the path. Given that restoring should be an
>infrequent event we can live with a minor inconvenience at that point to
>have the safety of making sure that the backup itself is valid. 
>
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156396

Seriously ?!¿

Restoring is infrequent but comparison isnt. No offense but were working
on the package database directory here thats designated by a ports
environment variable.

Have you even tested this with your full path symlink security scenario.?

Gimme a break.

-- 

 Regards,
 J. Hellenthal
 WWJD

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