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FS#15546 - Do not create .pacsave with -R, if the file in %BACKUP% is unchanged

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Friday, 17 July 2009, 16:45 GMT
Last edited by Xavier (shining) - Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 14:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend/Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Xavier (shining)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version git
Due in Version 3.3.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've told everything in the summary. My /etc directory is polluted by .pacsave files, that I've never touched.
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Closed by  Xavier (shining)
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 14:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in git by commit 5d15bb68f
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Friday, 17 July 2009, 17:06 GMT
Yeah this makes perfectly sense.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 17 July 2009, 20:22 GMT
I am 100% behind this one.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Sunday, 19 July 2009, 17:52 GMT
The patch :P
   0001-Do-not-create-.pacsave-w... (3 KiB)
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 20 July 2009, 05:31 GMT
The patch looks good to me. I would also change the description of the altered pactest to something like:

self.description = "Remove a package with an unchanged file marked for backup"
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Monday, 20 July 2009, 06:25 GMT
done in my working branch :)

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