[arch-dev-public] upgrade path for some config files?

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> The current cups package is missing some configuration files that I
> want to introduce with a new minor bugfix release.
>
> The cupsd has created probably some of these files already if needed but
> I want to ship empty files from now on with correct permissions like
> other major distributions do. This will also solve some bugs. I've put
> the files into backup array for future upgrades.
>
> But how should I handle the initial update. pacman -S cups shows
> several file conflicts because the files in the system are not under
> pacman control. Can a safe upgrade done by pacman without user
> interaction? If not we should probably announce it in a news that users
> will have to backup the conflicting files and will have to remerge their
> configuration after the update.
>
> see my commit for cups 1.4.2-4. I'll keep it in staging for now.

pacman -Sf cups will be, for most definitions, safe. pacman will move
any conflicting files to .pacorig and the user will then have to
handle them accordingly.

-Dan