FS#31549 - Add option to ingore filesystem conflict

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 15 September 2012, 14:17 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 03:05 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend/Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.3
Due in Version 5.1.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
There should be an option less strong than --force that allows writing over unowned files on the filesystem.

Emerge has such a feature:
COLLISION_IGNORE="/path/to/file" emerge...

Instead of an environmental variable, I suggest adding an --overwrite flag that takes a list of files for which a conflict should be ignored. Perhaps allow wildcards and specifying a directory in which all conflicts are ignroed too.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 03:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  git commit 04d211ef

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