Am Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:30:52 +0200 (EET) schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>:
Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade "initscripts" package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten without notifying me. Because of special changes I've made to mount /var as tmpfs, and because I forgot to put the files in the NoUpgrade line of pacman.conf, the system was unbootable and after fixing it pacman wants to download 500MB of packages again (ideas?). :-@
Can't pacman just emit a big fat warning like: WARNING: /etc/rc.sysinit USER CHANGES OVERWRITTEN
Since this case is extremely rare, the message would appear scarcely. I can't thing of anything negative for such a feature.
Just add NoUpgrade = etc/rc.sysinit to /etc/pacman.conf Such a warning is not necessary, because /etc/rc.sysinit is a system script which usually doesn't need to be modified. And people, who modify it should know what they are doing. Greetings, Heiko