Re: [PATCH 4/6] Hook conffile database into dpkg unpack/configure/remove stages

Hi Sean, I finally got around to reviewing your patch to maintain the conffile database during unpack/configure/remove stages. I am still worried that the “commit” operation does not seem to be atomic like it should be. Could you look at my description of your patch and let me know where I go

Re: [PATCH 4/6] Hook conffile database into dpkg unpack/configure/remove stages

hi jonathan, thanks for your feedback on this and the previous patches. before going any further, i'd like to point out that i'm still waiting for feedback from guillem, and i don't plan on doing any further work on this until i hear at least something from him indicating that he's interested

[PATCH 4/6] Hook conffile database into dpkg unpack/configure/remove stages

In process_archive() (src/processarc.c), clean out the staged (-new) version of the package's conffile database. In tarobject() (src/archives.c), some slight of hand is performed with the backend pipe of the struct tarcontext to intercept conffiles and place a copy in the staged (new) conffile