[pacman-dev] config handling

[Роман Кирилич]

Current behaviour seems fine to me too. All I said is just for
clarification of how it should be so no changes in this behaviour
should be made
(e.g. NoUpgrade functionality should not be removed, and other files
(not config files) shouldn't be added to backup array).

2006/5/27, Xavier Chantry <x.chantry at wanadoo.fr>:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 12:40:02AM +0300, ????? ??????? wrote:
> > When file is in NoUpgrade list Pacman should do it's XYZ logic with
> > one important change - it should NEVER overwrite any file listed in
> > NoUpgrade.
>
> That's what I did.
>
> > By default there should be NO NoUpgrade list in pacman.conf.
> > There is no point to include any _config_ file in NoUpgrade, _only
> > modified system shell scripts_ should be included there (for some rare
> > cases when user modifies them).
>
> I agree.
>
> > When package that owns file listed in NoUpgrade is removed - this file
> > should be saved as .pacsave.
>
> Yep, but I was asking about the current pacman behavior,
> since I couldn't try it.
> Having a second look at the code, it finally seems it's already
> what happens, so it's fine.
>
>
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