Restore the 20restore-metadata script so that legacy etckeeper repos will still work.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init.d/20restore-metadata b/init.d/20restore-metadata
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9c2bf65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init.d/20restore-metadata
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# Note that metastore doesn't check that the .metastore file only changes
+# perms of files in the current directory. It's ok to trust the .metastore
+# file won't do anything shady, because, as documented, etckeeper-init
+# should only be run on repositories you trust.
+if [ -e .metadata ]; then
+	if which metastore >/dev/null; then
+		metastore --apply --mtime
+	else
+		echo "etckeeper warning: legacy .metastore file is present but metastore is not installed" >&2
+	fi
+fi