[Dev] News: filesystem upgrade for Parabola - manual intervention required

[André Silva]

    News: filesystem upgrade - manual intervention required

2011-12-20 - Tom Gundersen

When upgrading to |filesystem-2011.12| there will be a conflict with
|/etc/mtab|.

Install the package as follows:

|pacman -S filesystem --force|

It is strongly advised to avoid the |--force| or |-f| switch as it is
not safe. However, in this particular case it is needed as deleting
|/etc/mtab| manually would break pacman.

The reason for the conflict is that the file used to be generated at
boot and hence not owned by any package. Now it is a symlink to
|/proc/self/mounts| owned by |filesystem|. This change means that
|initscripts| no longer requires write access to the rootfs (though
other packages might).

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