[arch-dev-public] [signoff] bash 3.2.033-2 and filesystem 2007.11-6

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 09:08:26 EST 2008


On Jan 30, 2008 3:59 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/30, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
>
> > These two have been bumped because apparently some people still had
> > problems due to an edge case with the generation of pacnew files  I
> > bumped both the package and the md5sum on profile in order to get
> > around edge cases with no pacnew files
> >
> > bash was a version bump too mainly to move the man pages
> >
> > filesystem changes:
> >    Setup for FHS compliant man pages - FS#8839
> >    Claim ownership of /etc/profile from bash - FS#4766
> >    Remove LESSCHARSET env var from /etc/profile - FS#8877
> >
> > bash changes:
> >    Update patch level to 033
> >    Remove /etc/profile from package. Move bashisms to
> > /etc/profile.bash - FS#4766
> >
> > /etc/profile was also largely revamped. Please comment on the changes
> > there if you'd like.
> >
> > I'd like to get these into core as soon as possible
> >
> >
>
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-January/016696.html
> Should we consider /etc/issue not being in backup array as a bug?
> Or this file should be added to NoUpgrade by user?

I see no reason why this should be backed up. There is nothing there
for the user to modify in a normal situation, and I guess 99% of users
would want it overwritten. Seems like a good NoUpgrade candidate to
me.

-Dan




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