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jonkristian

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 101

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Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING

Pacman will not upgrade, modify, nor change system configuration files.
In short, Pacman will not automatically reconfigure your system for you. (Again, this is a feature, not a flaw.)

This might (in some cases) cause a confusion.
A .pacsave file is created during a package removal (pacman -R, which is also called automatically by pacman -U and pacman -Su)
when the pacman database indicates that a certain file owned by the package should be renamed with a .pacsave extension if it was previously modified by the user.

(Taken from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … ave_Files)

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keenerd

Package Maintainer (PM)

Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 647

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Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING

Despite pacman not being an "automatic system maintenance program", a large portion of these steps can be automated.

Pacmatic will check the news for you before updates, warn you about -Sy, and pester you to take care of pacnew files.  I'm working on a feature that will recommend which AUR packages need rebuilding.

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78559 for more details.

Eddotan

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From: Colombia

Registered: 2010-08-19

Posts: 21

Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING

great post :-P
i have Arch news on my RSS Reader, so im lazy to read in websites XD

welpert

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2011-01-11

Posts: 73

Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING

If you're a bit of a noob like me, don't accidentally do a "pacman -Rc networkmanager avahi samba netfs" in stead of a "pacman -Rs networkmanager avahi samba netfs" Luckily I spotted my error fast enough to ctrl-C fast enough to be able to reinstall the uninstalled packages without problems..

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AK-33

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Registered: 2011-07-02

Posts: 9

Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING

Hi, all.

First post.

I'm a relative n00b to *nix. After re-installing Arch for the 10th time (that's not an exaggeration), I finally got an Internet connection and upgraded to the 2.6.39 kernel. Then, for whatever reason, I decided to upgrade glibc... which actually downgraded the package because I guess the mirrors don't keep up to date as much as they should. Now, nothing works anymore, and I can't even log in. Thus, I must re-install everything from scratch, which should be another 5 hours of fun.

I wish (and forgive my n00b-ness if this already exists) there would be an option for pacman to only downgrade during a -Syu if the user specifies it with a flag.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING

Arch is a rolling release - downgrading is the exception, not commonplace.

Closing this as it is stickied, not a support/feature request thread.

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