On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 02:45:46PM -0400, Michael McConville wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I was recently discussing this with edd@, who suggested that I pull in
> ports@ and Marc.
>
> Syncthing is a daemon that lets you sync data between devices. By
> default, both metadata and user data are stored in /var/syncthing.
> However, when you update or delete the package, pkg_add tells you the
> following:
>
> > --- -syncthing-0.13.9 -------------------
> > You should also run rm -rf /var/syncthing/{.,}*
>
> For many or most users, this will delete their data and their device
> associations.
>
> Here are the relevant PLIST lines:
>
> > @sample ${VARBASE}/syncthing/
> > @extraunexec rm -rf ${VARBASE}/syncthing/{.,}*
>
> The porting docs describe @extraunexec as being for "system files
> created by the package at runtime". While this is a somewhat accurate
> description of /var/syncthing, I don't think that @extraunexec is
> intended for user data or for program data that is effectively long-term
> config data (e.g. Syncthing associations between devices).
>
> I couldn't find any indication in the Syncthing docs that any metadata
> needs to be deleted when updating. However, I could have easily missed
> something.
>
> Input appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Mike
That's the expected behavior. We're talking pkg_delete vs pkg_delete -c.
pkg_delete does tell you that you also need to remove this to wipe the
package completely.
