[pacman-dev] Fix for overwritten NoUpgrade files

[Dan McGee]

On 4/23/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks good to me.
> I ran the script, then removed the NoUpgrade from pacman.conf ,
> then reinstalled the packages owning the default files in NoUpgrade :
>   pacman -S filesystem grub initscripts lilo module-init-tools sudo
>
> so it extracted a bunch of unneeded pacnew files that I removed :
>   rm /etc/*.pacnew /boot/grub/menu.lst.pacnew
> but it also fixed the database in the same time :)
>
> With pacman 3, I wouldn't even have needed to remove the files from
> NoUpgrade before reinstalling the packages. It would still have fixed
> the database.
>
> So well, looks like it at least works correctly in the common case :d

Yeah, I got to be the lucky one to test this first last night. I hope
it works fine since I had to put my system out there. :)

-Dan