On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: > The current cups package is missing some configuration files that I > want to introduce with a new minor bugfix release. > > The cupsd has created probably some of these files already if needed but > I want to ship empty files from now on with correct permissions like > other major distributions do. This will also solve some bugs. I've put > the files into backup array for future upgrades. > > But how should I handle the initial update. pacman -S cups shows > several file conflicts because the files in the system are not under > pacman control. Can a safe upgrade done by pacman without user > interaction? If not we should probably announce it in a news that users > will have to backup the conflicting files and will have to remerge their > configuration after the update. > > see my commit for cups 1.4.2-4. I'll keep it in staging for now.
pacman -Sf cups will be, for most definitions, safe. pacman will move any conflicting files to .pacorig and the user will then have to handle them accordingly. -Dan
