[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

[Xavier]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in
>> /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be
>> modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but
>> you need to control whether of not pacman mucks with those files
>> yourself
>>
> Since I've been bitten by this, how can I know if the file I modified is
> goint to be overwritten or not, *before* it actually happens? And even if it
> is, a .pacsave wouldn't hurt anyone, if I remember correctly (it's been some
> time) I had completely lost my changes, and I had to rewrite them.
>
>

pacman -Qh
  -o, --owns <file>    query the package that owns <file>
  -i, --info           view package information (-ii for backup files)