[SOLVED] Who owns rc.conf (splashy deleted it)?

cemsbr · 2009-07-20 14:18:35

Today I removed splashy-theme-darch, splashy, directfb and initscripts-splashy. I also commented out the line about splashy in /etc/rc.conf before removing those packages. Now I don't have /etc/rc.conf anymore! I tried to restore the basic rc.conf by reinstalling its package, but:

[root@matrux ~]# pacman -Qo /etc/rc.conf
error: failed to read file '/etc/rc.conf': No such file or directory
[root@matrux ~]# touch /etc/rc.conf
[root@matrux ~]# pacman -Qo /etc/rc.conf
error: No package owns /etc/rc.conf

Who owns /etc/rc.conf?

Last edited by cemsbr (2009-07-20 15:15:56)

cinan · 2009-07-20 14:27:20

/etc/rc.conf is owned by initscripts

cemsbr · 2009-07-20 14:33:19

Thank you. I didn't have this package. Such a important one shouldn't it be a dependency?

bluewind · 2009-07-20 14:43:19

You had initscripts-splashy which also owns it.

cemsbr · 2009-07-20 14:46:07

So initscripts-splashy replaced initscripts. Unfortunately removing initscripts-splashy with "pacman -Rcsn" didn't show any dependency problem.

thayer · 2009-07-20 15:09:06

Because no other package you had installed depended on initscripts, thus no conflict. I feel your pain though, I did the same thing the first time around.

Last edited by thayer (2009-07-20 15:09:42)

cemsbr · 2009-07-20 15:14:16

Maybe there should be a meta-package like "archlinux-core" to avoid this.

Lars Stokholm · 2009-07-20 16:44:46

cemsbr wrote:

Maybe there should be a meta-package like "archlinux-core" to avoid this.

You mean like the base group?

cemsbr · 2009-07-20 17:14:26

Lars Stokholm wrote:

cemsbr wrote:
Maybe there should be a meta-package like "archlinux-core" to avoid this.
You mean like the base group?

No, I didn't. initscripts already belongs to the base group. I meant a meta-package, a package that only has dependencies. The problem with groups is that "pacman -Rcsn" (is there a more informative set of options?) doesn't warn the package belongs to a group (try "pacman -Rcsn initscripts", for example). In other words, nothing depends on initscripts, and dependencies are consistent without this package, but archlinux won't work as expected on next reboot.

I always remove packages with "Rcsn" to check if I'm going to break something. But this precaution wasn't enough when removing initscripts-splashy, so I lost /etc/rc.conf.

How can I know if a given package belongs to a group?

bluewind · 2009-07-20 17:50:07

You shouldn't use -n because it removes all files even if they are in the backup array. Only using -R also cries if that package has deps.

Lars Stokholm · 2009-07-20 17:51:44

I can see that initscripts-splashy backs up /etc/rc.conf. I think pacman should restore those backups when the program is uninstalled or at least ask or remind the user about it. Perhaps it does?

Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2009-07-20 17:53:35)

cemsbr · 2009-07-20 18:14:03

Lars Stokholm wrote:

I can see that initscripts-splashy backs up /etc/rc.conf. I think pacman should restore those backups when the program is uninstalled or at least ask or remind the user about it. Perhaps it does?

Probably I've deleted the backup long ago. Sometimes I search for *.pacnew and *.pacsave, apply some changes and then delete them. I shouldn't have found a reason to keep rc.conf and rc.conf.pacsave (or something like that).

Now I'm wondering if I have deleted other backups...

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#1 2009-07-20 14:18:35

[SOLVED] Who owns rc.conf (splashy deleted it)?

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