On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Daenyth Blank <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:27, Ronald van Haren <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> So the new package doesn't have the config file anymore and is now >>>> removing the old file (it seems it doesn't matter if the file is in >>>> the backup array or not). Any way around this so I can quickly fix >>>> this and people won't come in the grub shell upon next reboot ? >>>> >>>> Ronald >>>> >>> I don't think this is possible internally. One because it would leave >>> unmarked untracked files on /, secondly because internally an upgrade >>> is a remove+install >> >> I actually thought pacman USED to do this. If a file is in the backup >> array, and it is being removed, it is moved to .pacsav. Wasn't that >> the logic, or am I crazy? > > Yeah, we have some complete lies being posted in this thread. I > haven't looked at the package in question but I don't buy that I've > heard the full truth here. > > 1. upgrade is not a remove+add, it does a hell of a lot more (ever try > to handle backed-up files moving between packages on a system update? > pacman does) > 2. Config files in a backup array ****NEVER**** get deleted, except > for one case- you've never changed it and moving to either a version > of a package that doesn't have that file or uninstalling the package. > 3. Files move to .pacsave if they are removed, never deleted (except > the condition above) > 4. Please look at the pactest/tests/ directory in the pacman directory > if you want to see how backup file handling works with real examples. > In particular, remove010, remove011, remove020, remove021, > upgrade020-26, upgrade042, upgrade043, and upgrade045. (yes, there are > that many tests for this stuff)
I remember doing a redux of some of the backup array code way back when, and I was fairly certain this was the case. Perhaps the tests of grub2 are hitting the condition in #2 here.
