New comment by Duncaen on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/31678#issuecomment-869827732 Comment: Thats tricky, not exactly sure how it would behave, if you move it in pre-INSTALL into a place where xbps did not consider the file previously as configuration file then it might just overwrite it. https://github.com/void-linux/xbps/blob/4a5eb8dc87cf08ad919ec6602ef5a70e8514710c/lib/package_config_files.c#L127