dpkg: Reset the statoverrides from the in-core database on reload

If a statoverride gets removed in a maintainer script, it will not be
reflected on the database until after the current dpkg process has been
restarted. So we need to reset the statoverride information whenever we
are going to reload the statoverride database.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/statdb.c b/src/statdb.c
index 18a519702..9763cabf7 100644
--- a/src/statdb.c
+++ b/src/statdb.c
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ ensure_statoverrides(void)
 	char *loaded_list, *loaded_list_end, *thisline, *nextline, *ptr;
 	struct file_stat *fso;
 	struct filenamenode *fnn;
+	struct fileiterator *iter;
 
 	if (statoverridename == NULL)
 		statoverridename = dpkg_db_get_path(STATOVERRIDEFILE);
@@ -154,6 +155,12 @@ ensure_statoverrides(void)
 	}
 	file_prev = file;
 
+	/* Reset statoverride information. */
+	iter = files_db_iter_new();
+	while ((fnn = files_db_iter_next(iter)))
+		fnn->statoverride = NULL;
+	files_db_iter_free(iter);
+
 	if (!file) {
 		onerr_abort--;
 		debug(dbg_general, "%s: none, resetting", __func__);