Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Announce: library-relink

[Aaron Bentley]

Robin Farine wrote:
> > > If so, do you have any idea what caused this (manual
> > > intervention in the archive, baz, the library relink script
> > > itself :-^, ...)?
> >
> > It's a bit mysterious, but I think what happend is that I did a
> > library-add while the script was running, and this reused an
> > inode number that the script already had in its contents cache. 
> > So when the script got around to the newly-added revision, it
> > misidentified the contents of a file, and relinked it to the
> > wrong thing.
>
>
> Ah, nasty. Did you already implement whatever is needed to prevent 
> this from happening

Not yet.  Hmm.  I think we just need to include size, mode and mtime in 
the id.  Cool.  (Technically possible to circumvent, but this is a 
chance all Arch clients take.)

> or should we ensure that no one accesses the 
> library while running the script?

For now, yeah.  I'll see what I can do.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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