On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >> > "Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in >> >> > order to overwrite /etc/mtab." > > Sorry to interrupt guys but can't this be done in pre_upgrade function in > .INSTALL script of the package?
The check for file conflicts is done before the scripts are ran. Doing otherwise would mean that we might end up with a half-broken install, so it is not easy to change. -t
