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MFelida merged 1 commit into from
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fix: Towel scripts got reloaded when update changes them. #10

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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion user/local/share/towel/bin/towel-update
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Expand Up @@ -206,13 +206,23 @@ if [ ! -d "$src/user/local/share/towel" ]; then
exit 1
fi

set -e
# Source towel-common from the new tarball so towel_install_from_dir reflects
# any changes in the release being installed.
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
source "$src/user/local/share/towel/bin/towel-common"

towel_install_from_dir "$src"
backup_current="${TOWEL_DATA}.backup.$(date +%s)"
mv "$TOWEL_DATA" "$backup_current" 2>/dev/null || true
trap 'rm -rf "$TOWEL_DATA"; mv "$backup_current" "$TOWEL_DATA" 2>/dev/null' EXIT

towel_install_from_dir "$src" || {
echo 1>&2 "towel update --apply failed: installation error"
exit 1
}

rm -rf "$backup_current"
trap - EXIT
echo "towel updated to $latest_version."
echo "Note: distrobox/containers configs were not refreshed."
echo " Re-run ./install from the tarball to update those."
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