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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=463ed9a7becbe509948620d9c1138e40c711c45c commit 463ed9a7becbe509948620d9c1138e40c711c45c Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Sat Mar 2 18:13:14 2019 +0100 libdpkg: Do not generate a backup file for the available database This file contains information only valid as long as the downloaded sources are also available. So it is closer to a cache than a database, and as such, there is no need for an uncompressed backup, which can take quite some space. Closes: #343578 --- debian/changelog | 4 ++++ lib/dpkg/dump.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 240d07d32..9f7105a7d 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ dpkg (1.20.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + [ Guillem Jover ] + * libdpkg: Do not generate a backup file for the available database. + Closes: #343578 + [ Updated man pages translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #931135 diff --git a/lib/dpkg/dump.c b/lib/dpkg/dump.c index c58a4d59a..48f0beb03 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/dump.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/dump.c @@ -538,8 +538,12 @@ void writedb(const char *filename, enum writedb_flags flags) { struct atomic_file *file; + enum atomic_file_flags atomic_flags = ATOMIC_FILE_BACKUP; - file = atomic_file_new(filename, ATOMIC_FILE_BACKUP); + if (flags & wdb_dump_available) + atomic_flags = 0; + + file = atomic_file_new(filename, atomic_flags); atomic_file_open(file); writedb_records(file->fp, filename, flags); -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
