Re: [Exist-development] Backup/Restore of installed packages

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

Hi José,

> I have been looking at the eXist packages system (.xar files) because development version of AtomicWiki is now installed in such way, and it seems quite robust. But, after a test I have realized that full system backups do not include those packages in the backup directory/zip. Is there some plans to include in the backup the installed packages?

The problem is that the expath package manager unzips the packages
into webapp/WEB-INF/expathrepo/ and reads the package metadata from
there. We thus end up with two versions of the package: the one
deployed into the db and the original one in
webapp/WEB-INF/expathrepo/. This is a bit unfortunate.

I planned to change the package manager to keep its metadata in the db
and remove the source package once it got deployed, but I don't think
I'll have time for it during the weeks to come. If anybody wants to
dig into this...

Wolfgang