On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:00:57 +0100 Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia22@outlook.com> wrote:
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:03:59 -0400 From: jdarnold@buddydog.org To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: [arch-general] Package conflicts
I'm having a problem with the liteide vs gocode-git packages. liteide, which is an official Pacman package, has recently started to include the /usr/bin/gocode binary, which I have been using via the AUR package gocode-git (there is also another AUR package called gocode-bin but no pacman package).
So now when I try to update I get an error:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) liteide: /usr/bin/gocode exists in filesystem
This didn't seem to be right, as I'm trying to install liteide, not gocode here. So I reported the problem:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39607
and it immediately got closed with the statement that AUR packages aren't supported so contact the maintainer of the AUR package.
Well, as far as I can tell, there isn't much the maintainer of the AUR package can do if some other package is going to just put any old binary wherever it wants without saying anything about it. Shouldn't the liteide package at least say it provides 'gocode'? Or conflicts or something besides just letting pacman complain about a file that exists in the filesystem?
See https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/l... -> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/liteide&id=58c9d99fd75dbfab1b4fa6f8b5fe0541fffaef4a
Package from the repos shouldn't conflict with other packages from the official repos, but there may be an issue with packages from the AUR. In this case, it's usually up to the AUR package maintainer to work around it.
So what happens if / when gocode moves to the official repo? What would be the expected solution then? -- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, you need a team ~ John Wooden