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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=25797abf7f08c7db8c380fa08338088dd5acac49 commit 25797abf7f08c7db8c380fa08338088dd5acac49 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Sep 4 00:02:44 2020 +0200 debian: Improve cron file robustness on missing or empty backup files Check whether the database files exist and ignore them otherwise. If some database file has been modified, but the current file being processed does not exist, created an empty backup so that they are all in sync with their sequence number. Closes: #969472 --- debian/dpkg.cron.daily | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/dpkg.cron.daily b/debian/dpkg.cron.daily index 0a135f729..11124f7dd 100644 --- a/debian/dpkg.cron.daily +++ b/debian/dpkg.cron.daily @@ -9,15 +9,21 @@ if cd /var/backups ; then dbchanged=no dbfiles="arch status diversions statoverride" for db in $dbfiles ; do - if ! cmp -s "dpkg.${db}.0" "$dbdir/$db"; then + if ! [ -s "dpkg.${db}.0" ] && ! [ -s "$dbdir/$db" ]; then + # Special case the files not existing or being empty as being equal. + continue + elif ! cmp -s "dpkg.${db}.0" "$dbdir/$db"; then dbchanged=yes break fi done if [ "$dbchanged" = "yes" ] ; then for db in $dbfiles ; do - [ -e "$dbdir/$db" ] || continue - cp -p "$dbdir/$db" "dpkg.$db" + if [ -e "$dbdir/$db" ]; then + cp -p "$dbdir/$db" "dpkg.$db" + else + touch "dpkg.$db" + fi savelog -c 7 "dpkg.$db" >/dev/null done fi -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
