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deivshon / ifetch

Fetch tool for Linux systems to display network interface information
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AUR package: upgrade overwrites configuration files #6

Closed kseistrup closed 1 year ago

kseistrup commented 1 year ago

As of aur/ifetch-git r138.34bf52f-1 (and earlier), the system wide configuration files will be overwritten on each upgrade, discarding possible customisations.

As a minimum, /etc/ifetch/ifetchrc should be left untouched, and adding

backup=('etc/ifetch/ifetchrc')

to the PKGBUILD file will ensure that the configuration file that comes with the package will be installed as ifetchrc.pacnew:

:: Processing package changes…
(1/1) upgrading ifetch-git                                                                                                      [###########################################################] 100%
warning: /etc/ifetch/ifetchrc installed as /etc/ifetch/ifetchrc.pacnew
:: Running post-transaction hooks…

From there the user can assess if there are new options available that should be applied to the customised configuration file.

See PKGBUILD(5) for details.

deivshon commented 1 year ago

Thank you for bringing this up! The updated PKGBUILD has been pushed to the AUR