On 25/03/10 09:26, Dan McGee wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Andreas Radke<a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
The current cups package is missing some configuration files that I want to introduce with a new minor bugfix release.
The cupsd has created probably some of these files already if needed but I want to ship empty files from now on with correct permissions like other major distributions do. This will also solve some bugs. I've put the files into backup array for future upgrades.
But how should I handle the initial update. pacman -S cups shows several file conflicts because the files in the system are not under pacman control. Can a safe upgrade done by pacman without user interaction? If not we should probably announce it in a news that users will have to backup the conflicting files and will have to remerge their configuration after the update.
see my commit for cups 1.4.2-4. I'll keep it in staging for now.
pacman -Sf cups will be, for most definitions, safe. pacman will move any conflicting files to .pacorig and the user will then have to handle them accordingly.
Are we having an announcement made for this? It is not a usual upgrade. Allan