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

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 11:47:44 EDT 2007


2007/4/15, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Yeah, I've already realised that. :-)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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