Norbert Zeh said the following at 07/19/2012 06:08 PM :
Well, the filesystem instructions are older and applied at the time the glibc upgrade was not an issue yet. Combining the two instructions, I would guess the following should work:
pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem --ignore glibc
OK.
pacman -S --force filesystem --ignore glibc
OK.
pacman -Sd <everything you couldn't upgrade due to ignored glibc>
OK. FWIW, the list of packages was: attica binutils boost-libs eclipse eclipse-cdt faac ffmpeg gcc gcc-libs gnutls grep gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins icu jedit kdebase-runtime kdelibs libcups libgl liblrdf libmp4v2 libproxy libtool libva linux mesa mkinitcpio openjdk6 pcre poppler poppler-glib qt raptor soprano swig xine-lib xorg-server-xephyr
pacman -Su
Not OK:
[root@shack n7dr]# pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): glibc-2.16.0-2
Total Installed Size: 33.94 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.83 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (1/1) checking package integrity [##########################################################################################] 100% (1/1) loading package files [##########################################################################################] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) glibc: /lib exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [root@shack n7dr]#
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