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

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 11:53:36 EDT 2007


2007/4/10, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net>:
> 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).

Hm, could you please then diff your version with 3.0.1 in part of
backing up files?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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