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FS#7163 - arch-release is empty after upgrade to filesystem-0.8-7

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Attila (attila) - Monday, 14 May 2007, 13:08 GMT-5
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 14 May 2007, 14:12 GMT-5
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

On my two pcs with arch the file /etc/arch-release was empty after doing a "pacman -Syu" and upgrade to filesystem-0.8-7.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 14 May 2007, 14:12 GMT-5
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 14 May 2007, 14:12 GMT-5
Originally /etc/arch-release was removed because it's wrong for Arch as we use rolling release system.
But then it was added again for compatability (some packages check for its existence to know they are running on Arch)
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/filesystem/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.80&r2=text&tr2=1.79&diff_format=h

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