On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in >> /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be >> modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but >> you need to control whether of not pacman mucks with those files >> yourself >> > Since I've been bitten by this, how can I know if the file I modified is > goint to be overwritten or not, *before* it actually happens? And even if it > is, a .pacsave wouldn't hurt anyone, if I remember correctly (it's been some > time) I had completely lost my changes, and I had to rewrite them. > > pacman -Qh -o, --owns <file> query the package that owns <file> -i, --info view package information (-ii for backup files)
