[aur-general] Package review bitcoin-classic

Eli Schwartz eschwartz93 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 17:18:58 UTC 2017


On 01/11/2017 12:01 PM, Tom Zander wrote:
> I have not found out how pacman treats config files on upgrades, removes and 
> reinstalls.
> The point here is that the config file should not be overwritten by the 
> package version on upgrade, it should not be deleted when the package is 
> deleted (and may be reinstalled just minutes later) etc.
> Only when its 100% identical to the one in the package can it safely be 
> deleted / upgraded.
> 
> Maybe I didn’t look good enough, but I could not find out how to do the 
> above. So I went for the safest solution.

man -P 'less -p backup' PKGBUILD

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Eli Schwartz

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