On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
One last problem : the pacman.conf needs to be updated. Most important points : 1) remove unstable mirror section 2) add SyncFirst
This may be an overkill, but this can be mentioned in .INSTALL file too, because user may omit pacman.conf.pacnew. Or give a general message: "New options were added to pacman.conf, please check pacman.conf.pacnew (if it exists) and pacman.conf manual for details"
Well I am not sure Dan would like that after what he said here : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-July/007136.html The impression I got from this is to try to limit the install messages as much as possible, only keeping the critical stuff that would prevent pacman from functioning properly. This is not the case here, pacman 3.2 still works properly with the old config. Then it is the user's duty to make sure all .pacnew files are merged. Ideally, just after an upgrade. But running pacdiff regularly to make sure nothing was missed does not hurt either.