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#1 2012-01-23 20:21:22
- Zulfikar
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Should'nt pacman create a new pacman.xxx file ?
I have installed Arch again and updated pacman with -Syy and under /etc i do not see a pacman.xxx file , the old pacman.conf exists though
, the 1st time I had installed Arch a few days it had created a new file but today I do not see it.
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#2 2012-01-23 20:32:13
- hokasch
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Re: Should'nt pacman create a new pacman.xxx file ?
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#3 2012-01-23 20:36:13
- Zulfikar
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Re: Should'nt pacman create a new pacman.xxx file ?
Don't want to find it which i know how to, the thing is i do not see the new pacman file under /etc like it had done
the 1st time.
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#4 2012-01-23 20:57:10
- stefanwilkens
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Re: Should'nt pacman create a new pacman.xxx file ?
hokasch wrote:Don't want to find it which i know how to, the thing is i do not see the new pacman file under /etc like it had done
the 1st time.
The point is that it doesn't create pacman.* files, it creates *.pacnew and *.pacsave files.
If it did not create this, then the original file was unedited. Meaning there was no user configuration, thus pacman overwrote it with the new file.
Do i use ntfs-3g to mount a ntfs partition for read/write ?
ntfs-3g is the module that allows write access to ntfs partitions, yes.
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#5 2012-01-23 21:03:05
- Zulfikar
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Re: Should'nt pacman create a new pacman.xxx file ?
Zulfikar wrote:hokasch wrote:Don't want to find it which i know how to, the thing is i do not see the new pacman file under /etc like it had done
the 1st time.The point is that it doesn't create pacman.* files, it creates *.pacnew and *.pacsave files.
If it did not create this, then the original file was unedited. Meaning there was no user configuration, thus pacman overwrote it with the new file.
Zulfikar wrote:Do i use ntfs-3g to mount a ntfs partition for read/write ?
ntfs-3g is the module that allows write access to ntfs partitions, yes.
I manually decompressed pacman as by mistake i did pacman -U pacman
yep I installed the ntfs-3g and works wonderfully.
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#6 2012-01-23 23:43:29
- hokasch
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Re: Should'nt pacman create a new pacman.xxx file ?
Don't want to find it which i know how to, the thing is i do not see the new pacman file under /etc like it had done
the 1st time.
When you know where to find the information, read it. The link I gave you explains why that happened...
original = X, current = X, new = Y
The current version's contents are identical to the original's, but the new version is different. Since the user hasn't modified the current version and the new version may contain improvements or bugfixes, overwrite the current version with the new version and do not notify the user. This is the only auto-merging of new changes that pacman is capable of performing.
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