[arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 14:36:21 EST 2008


On Jan 12, 2008 3:58 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> eliott wrote:
> > Also of note: pacman 3.1 doesn't appear to overwrite the /etc/profile
> > file, even if you don't change it, because the package changed hands
> > (profile != profile.bash).
> >
> > When I enabled testing, fetched pacman 3.1, and then updated, I got a
> > profile.pacnew. Moving that over to replace the existing file and
> > logout-login fixed all the man pages that I had  chance to look at.
> > pacman, git, and a few others.
> >
>
>
> Ah indeed, when pacman installs the new filesystem package, it doesn't
> have the original md5sum of /etc/profile, because that one is only
> available in the old bash package, and not in the old filesystem package.

Good catch. I can bump the md5sum but fiddling with the file, if
people think that is ideal?




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