[arch-general] Apppearance of .pacnew files

[Allan McRae]

On 06/06/12 16:21, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a question about the appearance of .pacnew files. I've got two servers running archlinux, and I did pacman's 4.0.3 upgrade on both.
> 
> The first server did the upgrade as expected, creating the pacman.conf.pacnew file.
> 
> The second server merge my file with the new one, without asking for anything ! 
> 
> 
> So here comes my question: how is it resolved that a file must be replaced (2nd case) or created as .pacnew ?
> 

"man pacman" and read "HANDLING CONFIG FILES"