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

[Andrew Fyfe]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2007/4/10, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net>:
>> 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.
> 
> I know, that's why I wonder, especially that old bug (when file was
> replaced during first update after NoUpgrade removed) shouldn't work
> now.
> I don't have access to my server now, but can assure you that there's
> nothing unusual in pacman.conf. As I said all NoUpgrade was removed
> since pacman 2.9.8 out so even that old bug shouldn't cause this.
> Besides .pacnew was created which is right, but WTH file was replaced
> - that's the point.
> I will do upgrade at home tomorrow (sure, backing up /etc previously)
> and will do it with --debug=3 now.
> 
  I did the upgrade last night and didn't have any problems, BUT I'm 
running with an updated copy of libalpm. I did notice that only 
group.pacnew was created. /etc/issue wasn't updated and there wasn't an 
issue.pacnew. (etc/issue was the file updated for the new release).