[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [ANNOUNCE] filesystem-2011.12 manual intervention required

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> >> > "Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in order to overwrite /etc/mtab."
>
> Sorry to interrupt guys but can't this be done in pre_upgrade function in
> .INSTALL script of the package?

The check for file conflicts is done before the scripts are ran. Doing
otherwise would mean that we might end up with a half-broken install,
so it is not easy to change.

-t