On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:07:23PM +0000, [email protected] 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: > >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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