[pacman-dev] A starting point

[Aaron Griffin]

On 2/13/07, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is going to be hosed that better already be protected in the
> > package's backup=() array? If it is really something crucial, a bug
> > should be filed against the package and have that file included in the
> > array by default.
>
> Speaking of which, shouldn't a package's PKGBUILD be able to define a
> file as such? If so, maybe keep the backup=() array in pacman.conf for
> backwards compatibility and/or to overwrite the PKGBUILDs preference.
> But having hard-coded information relevant to packages (many of which
> a user might not even have installed) living outside of the package
> itself and in the package manager's config is a bit illogical to me.

This is the way it works now.
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/glibc/PKGBUILD?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
backup=(etc/locale.gen)

Or do you mean something else?

I'm pretty sure dtw was talking about *packages* marked as NoUpgrade
in pacman.conf, not individual files.