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necui

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Registered: 2006-04-13

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Pacman touches old pacsave files.

Imagine this:

# pacman -S package
# echo "test" >> /etc/package/package.conf

Where /etc/package/package.conf is to be backuped. Now:

# pacman -R package

OK, pacman saved the changed config file to /etc/package/package.conf.pacsave.  So now:

# pacman -S package
# pacman -R package

And unfortunately pacman overwrites the old pacsave file (this with "test" added at the end).
Some days ago I've lost my config file like this...  Well, I have a backup, but pacman should not touch this pacsave file.

I propose to tag pacsaves with sth, for example a number:
.pacsave1, .pacsave2.