[pacman-dev] /etc/fstab rewritten by pacman!

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/4/10, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On 4/10/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Few hours ago I did an update on my server via ssh.
> > First I updated pacman from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, then did -Su.
> > One of packages was filesystem-0.8-2.
> > I don't have etc/fstab in NoUpgrade since 2.9.8.
> > Then some idiot rebooted server before I checked .pacnew files etc.
> > One of my coworker called my by cellphone (I also noticed PuTTY became
> > inactive).
> > When I get to my second job (where server is located) - I saw that
> > /etc/fstab is rewritten with package's default, though pacman also
> > created fstab.pacnew.
> > Any ideas why did this happen?
> >
> > --
> > Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
>
> Uh oh. Heard of this yesterday too:
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31776
>
> What the hell is regressing?

Dunno.
Some time ago I did successful upgrade of filesystem package with
pacman 2.9.8 without any NoUpgrade line.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)