Hi there,
Over on userland-discuss, April Chin brought up a problem she was seeing
with 'salvage-from'.
She's looking to get rid of a directory in a new version of her
application, and salvage content to another directory.
The catch is, that the target directory already exists on the system
(it's packaged in both the new, and old versions of the package) and so
the salvage-from mechanism isn't kicking in.
I've tested a change to src/actions/directory.py that allows us to
perform salvaging when the directory already exists (but the action
install() method is still called, ie. the action has actually changed,
in this case, by adding the 'salvage-from' attribute) but am wondering
if this seems like a sane thing to do?
The man page explicitly states that this happens on directory creation,
which is why I'm being cautious here.
Another solution would be to salvage content to a new .migrate
directory, and also deliver an new SMF service specific to her package
that runs a migration script, but that seems like a bit of a drag.
cheers,
tim
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