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

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Wed Mar 17 15:00:47 CET 2010


Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2010 11:27:10 schrieb Ronald van Haren:
> 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 ?

It looks like your are changing the config file from a single one in 
/boot/grub to multiple ones in /etc/grub.d/. This is quite a major change 
which will need user intervention.

You should put such a version in testing first and prepare a news item draft.

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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