Ben Oliver via arch-general
On 2021-02-22 13:58:36, Anton Hvornum via arch-general wrote:
That would answer my issue yesterday, but raises another question.
What dictates if something is worthy of being put on the bulletin board on the main website?
I added 2FA way back when to /etc/pam.d/system-login and that meant that pacman placed a .pacnew file alongside the modified system-login (as expected) on upgrade. But the notification about this got lost in the sea of packages which is on me of course. But seeing as this is a modification to a system critical file can (and did) cause a complete lockout of accounts on the machine due to `auth required` being the keywords put in place. I would have expected this to be on the bulletin board about possible manual intervention required.
These days I don't pacman -Syu, I have a script that:
- checks the news - runs -Syu - runs pacdiff
pacmatic, from community, addresses the first 2 points. And partially the third. I am not its author, or maintainer, or something. -- u34
It's saved me a lot of hassle, but doesn't catch everything.
For me, I would use an option that allowed pacman to 'pause' on messages (like post install stuff) to give me time to read them.