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| author | Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> | 2014-10-01 07:57:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2015-01-21 05:27:47 +0100 |
| commit | 926280cfc7da5aa6d8a4e7dc60f9831176758e7e (patch) | |
| tree | 4465c6d1d69d744af94fc4b80ad2da2b2db4ce16 /doc | |
| parent | a82a5cf3f71e38c54a5ac1b5eaf3c83374d0e515 (diff) | |
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remove support for .pacorig files
Leave user files in place and save new config files with a .pacnew
extension. This reduces the complexity of file extraction and respects
the principle that pacman shouldn't modify files it didn't create.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 3fef08dc..5c57450b 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -484,8 +484,9 @@ original=X, current=Y, new=Z:: original=NULL, current=Y, new=Z:: The package was not previously installed, and the file already exists on the - file system. Save the current file with a '.pacorig' extension, install the - new file, and warn the user. + file system. Install the new file with a '.pacnew' extension and warn the + user. The user must then manually merge any necessary changes into the + original file. Examples |