new pacman [Solved]

vinoman2 · 2009-09-28 01:46:25

I'm doing an upgrade tonight and I get this warning:

Targets (1): pacman-3.3.1-1

Total Download Size: 0.60 MB
Total Installed Size: 2.10 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from core...
pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64 618.9K 335.8K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading pacman [#####################] 100%
warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
[root@arch64 davek]#

So what happens to /etc/pacman.conf ?
Will the .pacnew directory take over ?

Last edited by vinoman2 (2009-09-28 11:46:22)

Allan · 2009-09-28 01:49:06

You should merge any changes you made in /etc/pacman.conf into the /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file and then replace the old pacman.conf with the .pacnew file.

vinoman2 · 2009-09-28 02:09:55

Allan wrote:

You should merge any changes you made in /etc/pacman.conf into the /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file and then replace the old pacman.conf with the .pacnew file.

once the changes are merged, I rename /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew to /etc/pacman.conf and delete old .conf file... correct?

MindTooth · 2009-09-28 02:33:37

Make sure that the .pacnew file is up2date. And afterward replace that file with the .conf file. You could maybe rename the old file to pacman.conf.orig. That is what I do.

Birger

vinoman2 · 2009-09-28 02:47:04

MindTooth wrote:

Make sure that the .pacnew file is up2date. And afterward replace that file with the .conf file. You could maybe rename the old file to pacman.conf.orig. That is what I do.
Birger

after comparing both files, the only difference is that /etc/pacman.conf ends with:
[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

and /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew does not.

why is there a /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file at all?

Ranguvar · 2009-09-28 03:03:47

Okay. Here's what happened.

You had a /etc/pacman.conf file. This was part of the Pacman package. You may have made configuration changes to it, etc. So when the new version of Pacman came out (with a new default config!), its new default config was saved to /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew. You could replace /etc/pacman.conf with /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew, and you'd have a fresh, vanilla config. So, what you should do is to apply any changes you have made to /etc/pacman.conf to /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew, and then replace the .conf with the .pacnew. In this way, you'll be using the new defaults ( whether you spotted them or not ) along with any changes you had previously made.

foutrelis · 2009-09-28 03:15:18

vinoman2 wrote:

why is there a /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file at all?

If you look more closely (e.g.: with `diff -up /etc/pacman.conf{,.pacnew} | less'), you'll notice that an option called NoPassiveFtp was removed from the new pacman.conf. Remove the same line from your /etc/pacman.conf and then delete the .pacnew file.

vinoman2 · 2009-09-28 11:29:14

foutrelis wrote:

vinoman2 wrote:
why is there a /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file at all?
If you look more closely (e.g.: with `diff -up /etc/pacman.conf{,.pacnew} | less'), you'll notice that an option called NoPassiveFtp was removed from the new pacman.conf. Remove the same line from your /etc/pacman.conf and then delete the .pacnew file.

Thanks I removed that line. I still have
[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
at the bottom of my pacman.conf. Is that OK to leave that?

Runiq · 2009-09-28 11:43:28

vinoman2 wrote:

foutrelis wrote:
vinoman2 wrote:
why is there a /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file at all?
If you look more closely (e.g.: with `diff -up /etc/pacman.conf{,.pacnew} | less'), you'll notice that an option called NoPassiveFtp was removed from the new pacman.conf. Remove the same line from your /etc/pacman.conf and then delete the .pacnew file.
Thanks I removed that line. I still have
[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
at the bottom of my pacman.conf. Is that OK to leave that?

It's just another repository, probably the one you used to install yaourt using pacman. Shouldn't be a problem if you leave it like that.

vinoman2 · 2009-09-28 11:45:45

Runiq wrote:

vinoman2 wrote:
foutrelis wrote:
If you look more closely (e.g.: with `diff -up /etc/pacman.conf{,.pacnew} | less'), you'll notice that an option called NoPassiveFtp was removed from the new pacman.conf. Remove the same line from your /etc/pacman.conf and then delete the .pacnew file.
Thanks I removed that line. I still have
[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
at the bottom of my pacman.conf. Is that OK to leave that?
It's just another repository, probably the one you used to install yaourt using pacman. Shouldn't be a problem if you leave it like that.

Thanks

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new pacman [Solved]

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