On 06/06/12 16:21, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a question about the appearance of .pacnew files. I've got two > servers running archlinux, and I did pacman's 4.0.3 upgrade on both. > > The first server did the upgrade as expected, creating the pacman.conf.pacnew > file. > > The second server merge my file with the new one, without asking for anything > ! > > > So here comes my question: how is it resolved that a file must be replaced > (2nd case) or created as .pacnew ? >
"man pacman" and read "HANDLING CONFIG FILES"