[aur-general] PKGBUILD 'backup' function won't work

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Mon Feb 21 03:56:22 EST 2011


On 02/21/2011 06:54 AM, Daniel Lin wrote:
> I  made a grub4dos-svn PKGBUILD.
> I want /etc/grub4dos.conf and /boot/grub/menu.lst be proper backup.
> But, I found it won't work.
>
> If my menu.lst exist, it won't appear menu.lst.pacnew.
> If I remove my package.  It wont keep menu.lst.orig
>
> I wrote the following line on PKGBUILD.
> backup=(etc/grub4dos.conf boot/grub/menu.lst)


i suggest to read man pacman, HANDLING CONFIG FILES section.

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