[arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

[dave reisner]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade "initscripts"
> package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten
> without notifying me. Because of special changes I've made to mount /var as
> tmpfs, and because I forgot to put the files in the NoUpgrade line of
> pacman.conf, the system was unbootable and after fixing it pacman wants to
> download 500MB of packages again (ideas?). :-@
>
> Can't pacman just emit a big fat warning like: WARNING: /etc/rc.sysinit
> USER CHANGES OVERWRITTEN
>
> Since this case is extremely rare, the message would appear scarcely. I
> can't thing of anything negative for such a feature.
>
>
> Dimitris
>

Or simply add rc.sysinit to the backup array in the PKGBUILD. I was bit by
this as well, but I had a backup close by. Imagine that.

d