From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:33:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: update-pciids should preserve permissions
X-Git-Tag: v3.0.0~141
X-Git-Url: http://mj.ucw.cz/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80b3121adfc9560880e5971788589f7338579b0f;p=pciutils.git

update-pciids should preserve permissions

* update-pciids.sh: Try to preserve permissions of the old file
if chmod supports --reference. Should close Debian Bug #223740.
git-archimport-id: mj@ucw.cz--public/pciutils--main--2.2--patch-24
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a09efc4..baef1df 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2003-12-27  Martin Mares  <mj@ucw.cz>
 
+	* update-pciids.sh: Try to preserve permissions of the old file
+	if chmod supports --reference. Should close Debian Bug #223740.
+
 	* lib/proc.c (proc_setup): Increased path name length limit to 1024.
 	Thanks for Redhat and Mandrake for inspiration.
 
diff --git a/update-pciids.sh b/update-pciids.sh
index d3c0b1f..ea89610 100755
--- a/update-pciids.sh
+++ b/update-pciids.sh
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ fi
 
 if [ -f $DEST ] ; then
 	mv $DEST $DEST.old
+	# --reference is supported only by chmod from GNU file, so let's ignore any errors
+	chmod -f --reference=$DEST.old $DEST.neww 2>/dev/null || true
 fi
 mv $DEST.neww $DEST
 rm $DEST.new