On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 10:02 +0200, Florian Pelz wrote: > On 09/27/2014 09:30 AM, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: > > On 09/27/2014 01:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 01:21 -0600, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: > >>> I assumed NoExtract should have been enough > >> Correct! Or are we missing something? > > > > Oddly, using only NoExtract caused pacman to remove the usr/bin/sh > > symlink, replacing it with nothing. (Using both NoUpgrade and > > NoExtract seems to work fine.) > > > > Perhaps it's a local oddity on my installation, but I admit I > > didn't fiddle with it for more than 5 minutes. I very likely > > overlooked something. > > > > ...when all you have is a hammer... > > > > Benjamin > > Same here. With only NoExtract, I linked /bin/sh to dash, reinstalled > bash, and /bin/sh was gone. With both NoExtract and NoUpgrade, I did > the same and /bin/sh was still a link to dash. My bad, until now I'm using NoExtract for files I don't want to have, I wasn't aware that a file or link we want to have gets lost.
