FS#1068 : Patch to fix two common package upgrading problems

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FS#1068 - Patch to fix two common package upgrading problems

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jason Chu (jason) - Sunday, 04 July 2004, 18:47 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 07 July 2004, 16:38 GMT

Task Type	Feature Request
Category
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture	not specified
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	0.7 Wombat
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

It fixes the pacman-doesn't-handle-symlinks-properly problem (where a package used to have a file in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/... and now has it in /usr/lib/perl5/current/... and pacman thinks there's already a file there, not realizing it's the same file) and the file-moves-from-one-package-to-another problem (such as the recent coreutils/shadow upgrade).

Feel free to rip it apart, I wasn't sure about memory allocation conventions... it seemed that sometimes you MALLOC'd strings but never freed them...