On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
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.
Dimitris
Or simply add rc.sysinit to the backup array in the PKGBUILD. I was bit by this as well, but I had a backup close by. Imagine that. d