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

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, dave reisner wrote:
> 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
>>
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> 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.

Because of my experience in this area... I also had a backup and that's 
how I fixed my system. BU* that happened after I realised something got 
overwritten, that is *after* the reboot, which costed me my pacman db. 
Can you imagine it? ;-)


Dimitris

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