[arch-dev-public] keep config file on system when upgrading to package without the config file

[Daenyth Blank]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:27, Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
> So the new package doesn't have the config file anymore and is now
> removing the old file (it seems it doesn't matter if the file is in
> the backup array or not). Any way around this so I can quickly fix
> this and people won't come in the grub shell upon next reboot ?
>
> Ronald
>
I don't think this is possible internally. One because it would leave
unmarked untracked files on /, secondly because internally an upgrade
is a remove+install