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

[José M. F. G. <jm...@us...>]

Hi Wolf,
	I can take a look in that in my spare time, but I need some initial clues about what to look and change as I don't know the packages subsystem.

	José María

On 30/01/12 23:45, Wolfgang Meier wrote:
> 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

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