On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, dave reisner wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@xxxxxxx> wrote:Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade "initscripts" package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten without notifying me. Because of special changes I've made to mount /var as tmpfs, and because I forgot to put the files in the NoUpgrade line of pacman.conf, the system was unbootable and after fixing it pacman wants to download 500MB of packages again (ideas?). :-@ Can't pacman just emit a big fat warning like: WARNING: /etc/rc.sysinit USER CHANGES OVERWRITTEN Since this case is extremely rare, the message would appear scarcely. I can't thing of anything negative for such a feature. DimitrisOr simply add rc.sysinit to the backup array in the PKGBUILD. I was bit by this as well, but I had a backup close by. Imagine that.
Because of my experience in this area... I also had a backup and that's how I fixed my system. BU* that happened after I realised something got overwritten, that is *after* the reboot, which costed me my pacman db. Can you imagine it? ;-)
Dimitris
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