On 2/13/07, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/13/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
What is going to be hosed that better already be protected in the package's backup=() array? If it is really something crucial, a bug should be filed against the package and have that file included in the array by default.
Speaking of which, shouldn't a package's PKGBUILD be able to define a file as such? If so, maybe keep the backup=() array in pacman.conf for backwards compatibility and/or to overwrite the PKGBUILDs preference. But having hard-coded information relevant to packages (many of which a user might not even have installed) living outside of the package itself and in the package manager's config is a bit illogical to me.
This is the way it works now. http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/glibc/PKGBUILD?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup backup=(etc/locale.gen) Or do you mean something else? I'm pretty sure dtw was talking about *packages* marked as NoUpgrade in pacman.conf, not individual files.