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Modified the removeOldHostsFile() function to keep backups of the old hosts file.

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gigaslayer131890 2016-02-14 23:15:22 +00:00
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updateHostsFile.py
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@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_litera
import os import os
import platform import platform
import re import re
import shutil
import string import string
import subprocess import subprocess
import sys import sys
import tempfile import tempfile
import time
import glob import glob
import argparse import argparse
# zip files are not used actually, support deleted # zip files are not used actually, support deleted
@ -353,6 +355,8 @@ def moveHostsFileIntoPlace(finalFile):
def removeOldHostsFile(): # hotfix since merging with an already existing hosts file leads to artefacts and duplicates def removeOldHostsFile(): # hotfix since merging with an already existing hosts file leads to artefacts and duplicates
oldFilePath = os.path.join(BASEDIR_PATH, 'hosts') oldFilePath = os.path.join(BASEDIR_PATH, 'hosts')
open(oldFilePath, 'a').close() # create if already removed, so remove wont raise an error open(oldFilePath, 'a').close() # create if already removed, so remove wont raise an error
backupFilePath = os.path.join(BASEDIR_PATH, 'hosts-{0}'.format(time.strftime("%c")))
shutil.copyfile(oldFilePath, backupFilePath) # make a backup copy, marking the date in which the list was updated
os.remove(oldFilePath) os.remove(oldFilePath)
open(oldFilePath, 'a').close() # create new empty hostsfile open(oldFilePath, 'a').close() # create new empty hostsfile