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

[Dan McGee]

On 4/15/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, now I did upgrade to my home system and guess what?
> pacman didn't create _any_ .pacnew when upgrading filesystem package,
> but no files were overwritten either. :-/ (oh, it just silently
> replaced /etc/issue but I didn't touch it so it's OK).
> So it doesn't create .pacnew when local file was changed but
> mainstream file was not changed since last version, or what?

RTFM. :P

       original=X, current=Y, new=X
              Both package versions contain the exact same file, but  the  one
              on  the  filesystem has been modified. Leave the current file in
              place.

-Dan