What is overrides option in modpack?

[khuongduy354]

I was reading code in subcommands/modpack/upgrade.rs and saw

to_install= read_overrides(temp_dir.join(manifest.name))

Which then check for all mod files inside temp_dir and install them
the temp_dir is something like ".config/tmp/ferium/..."
How can the mod files exist in the temp dir at first place? And why is that related to override ?

[theRookieCoder]

How can the mod files exist in the temp dir at first place?

You can see above the line you mentioned;

ferium/src/subcommands/modpack/upgrade.rs

Line 156 in 0304b52

extract_zip(modpack_file, &tmp_dir).await?;

Here, the contents of the modpack is unzipped to temp_dir.

And why is that related to override?

These override files are config files that the modpack wants you to use. It might be the case that the user has modified some of these configs so they wouldn't want them to be overridden again when they upgrade, which is why the option exists.