On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 13.01.2010 00:34, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: >> 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 -Qii is your friend. This. pacman -Qii dcron will show you all the backup files that pacman will take care of.