v6.4 (#6536)

advanced/Scripts/updatecheck.sh

@@ -50,10 +50,9 @@ rm -f "/etc/pihole/GitHubVersions"
 rm -f "/etc/pihole/localbranches"
 rm -f "/etc/pihole/localversions"
 
+# Create new versions file if it does not exist
 VERSION_FILE="/etc/pihole/versions"
-
-# Truncates the file to zero length if it exists to clear it up, otherwise creates an empty file.
-truncate -s 0 "${VERSION_FILE}"
+touch "${VERSION_FILE}"
 chmod 644 "${VERSION_FILE}"
 
 # if /pihole.docker.tag file exists, we will use it's value later in this script

advanced/Scripts/utils.sh

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ addOrEditKeyValPair() {
   local key="${2}"
   local value="${3}"
 
+  # touch file to prevent grep error if file does not exist yet
+  touch "${file}"
+
   if grep -q "^${key}=" "${file}"; then
     # Key already exists in file, modify the value
     sed -i "/^${key}=/c\\${key}=${value}" "${file}"

test/test_any_utils.py

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ def test_key_val_replacement_works(host):
     """Confirms addOrEditKeyValPair either adds or replaces a key value pair in a given file"""
     host.run("""
     source /opt/pihole/utils.sh
-    touch ./testoutput
     addOrEditKeyValPair "./testoutput" "KEY_ONE" "value1"
     addOrEditKeyValPair "./testoutput" "KEY_TWO" "value2"
     addOrEditKeyValPair "./testoutput" "KEY_ONE" "value3"