[pacman-dev] /etc/fstab rewritten by pacman!

[Andrew Fyfe]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2007/4/10, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
>> 2007/4/10, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>>> On 4/10/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Few hours ago I did an update on my server via ssh.
>>>> First I updated pacman from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, then did -Su.
>>>> One of packages was filesystem-0.8-2.
>>>> I don't have etc/fstab in NoUpgrade since 2.9.8.
>>>> Then some idiot rebooted server before I checked .pacnew files etc.
>>>> One of my coworker called my by cellphone (I also noticed PuTTY became
>>>> inactive).
>>>> When I get to my second job (where server is located) - I saw that
>>>> /etc/fstab is rewritten with package's default, though pacman also
>>>> created fstab.pacnew.
>>>> Any ideas why did this happen?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
>>> Uh oh. Heard of this yesterday too:
>>> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31776
>>>
>>> What the hell is regressing?
>> Dunno.
>> Some time ago I did successful upgrade of filesystem package with
>> pacman 2.9.8 without any NoUpgrade line.
> 
> Maybe something is still wrong or was broken after "proactive backup"?
> 
Roman other than repos/servers, what's in your pacman.conf?

I've looked at the filesystem packages and it's got all the backup 
lines, so it's not a problem with the package itself.

Andrew