On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Jatheendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Im trying to add some downgradability magic into pacman .Being quite > new to pacman code, i need your help to identify the possible > pitfalls of my approach before trying something. > > What i plan to do is.. > > In libalpm/remove.c unlink_file() [ I guess remove.c is the only > place where we are removing files ] > > replace all unlink(), rename() etc with copyandunlink , copyandrename > etc which will copy the file first into an archive file > package-backup.tgs in cache,then do unlink or rename. Then finally > include all the necessary .INSTALL ,PKGINFO ,.CHANGELOG etc and clean > up. > > So even if i do a -Scc i will have a backup of what was installed on > my system and can roll back to the previous state. > > And can sombody please point me to some documentation for libarchive > apart from the manpages... >
This does not make any sense. People who run -Scc don't want to keep any packages because they take space. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
