Already installed package - not by Arch?

Roken · 2012-07-20 23:35:51

OK, this is and odd one. Many moons and several distros ago, I installed burg to a separate /boot partition, and have continued to use this /boot partition throughout. the original installation distro has long since been eradicated from my system, and I've maintained burg.cfg manually (for those that don't know, burg and grub are much the same, except burg has additional theming).

Tonight, I decided to save myself some effort and install burg from AUR, reusing my existing config. I use packer for AUR, which has (rather un-helpfully this time) advised me that "package burg....etc is up to date - reinstalling". How does it know? Arch doesn't know anything about my bootloader at all.

cfr · 2012-07-21 00:34:50

Are you sure that it is packer and not a burg installation script telling you this? I assume it runs something because the AUR installation script removes /etc/burg-manager and an .iso if they exist. (I'm therefore assuming that some installation script from burg then replaces them.)

fsckd · 2012-07-21 00:57:17

Perhaps your system is haunted. Check your logs if you had installed burg before and forgot about it.

Roken · 2012-07-21 07:08:08

@ cfr

Not possible. When I installed Arch I did so on to a bare partition, so no burg scripts or configuration files lying around to remove or run. (I formatted the partition thus eradicating the old distro). burg was fully contained within /boot, hence my having configured it directly (burg.cfg) all this time

@fsckd

Nothing in the logs other than the most recent installation. Your "haunted" idea may have some mileage, though :-0

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#1 2012-07-20 23:35:51

Already installed package - not by Arch?

#2 2012-07-21 00:34:50

Re: Already installed package - not by Arch?

#3 2012-07-21 00:57:17

Re: Already installed package - not by Arch?

#4 2012-07-21 07:08:08

Re: Already installed package - not by Arch?

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