Hi, I inherited a package (agendav) for a webapplication which had the config symlinking backwards. This means:
- The real config files were installed into /usr/share/webapps/foo - /etc/webapps/foo is a symlink to /usr/share/webapps/foo - backup=() in the PKGBUILD only lists etc/webapps/foo I'd like to correct this situation in an update, but that update will of course overwrite /usr/share/webapps/foo with the new version (i.e. the new symlink) and nuke the user's current config. I tried adding both the etc/ and the old usr/share path to backup=() in the hope that pacman would create a .pacsav on update, but that didn't help: https://github.com/The-Compiler/pkgbuild/blob/master/agendav/PKGBUILD diff to the broken version: https://github.com/The-Compiler/pkgbuild/commit/f5af712f76a7ed5d0869130f1f7f9da69541462b Currently when I update, this happens: - /etc/webapps/foo is a broken symlink because it links to /usr/share/webapps/foo (which now links to /etc/webapps/foo). - The template config from the package is installed to /etc/webapps/foo.pacnew - /usr/share/webapps/foo is now the (correct) symlink to /etc/webapps/foo - The user config in /usr/share/webapps/foo got overwritten by that symlink without a .pacnew or .pacsav (why? Is there something I did wrong?). Is there any way I could fix this mess without deleting the user's config? If you want to experiment, you can get the current broken version (-2) from the AUR, and the "fixed" one (-3) from the git repo above. Thanks, Florian -- http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/
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