[arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?
Hello, Trying to do a complete system update, I get: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cups: /etc/cups/printers.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Certainly that file does exist, it probably has to in order to make my printer work. But why - is this an 'error' - does it block the update ??? And - What do I have to do to enable the system update ? And maybe pacman could be a bit more informative in such cases ? Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
Hello,
Trying to do a complete system update, I get:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cups: /etc/cups/printers.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Certainly that file does exist, it probably has to in order to make my printer work.
But why
- is this an 'error' - does it block the update
???
And
- What do I have to do to enable the system update ?
And
maybe pacman could be a bit more informative in such cases ?
Ciao,
Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the CUPS update. :)
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:28 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
Hello,
Trying to do a complete system update, I get:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cups: /etc/cups/printers.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Certainly that file does exist, it probably has to in order to make my printer work.
But why
- is this an 'error' - does it block the update
???
And
- What do I have to do to enable the system update ?
And
maybe pacman could be a bit more informative in such cases ?
Ciao,
Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the CUPS update. :)
Regarding this, I have noticed that the printers.conf file in the package was empty (I am like 90% sure) Was it really needed to be included in that package? The install script could touch one... And I also think that it is not feasible to have to take a look at the frontpage if you upgrade like once a month, but the package creator can include a message in the PKGBUILD itself, so it doesn't seem to be a pacman flaw. Regards, Matej
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 23:49:21 Matěj Týč wrote:
Regarding this, I have noticed that the printers.conf file in the package was empty (I am like 90% sure) Was it really needed to be included in that package? The install script could touch one... And I also think that it is not feasible to have to take a look at the frontpage if you upgrade like once a month, but the package creator can include a message in the PKGBUILD itself, so it doesn't seem to be a pacman flaw.
Ever read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way ? ;) You can use pacmatic what tries to fetch and display such warnings before you upgrade... Bye...Frank
On Wed 21 Apr 2010 23:49 +0200, Matěj Týč wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:28 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the CUPS update. :)
And I also think that it is not feasible to have to take a look at the frontpage if you upgrade like once a month, but the package creator can include a message in the PKGBUILD itself, so it doesn't seem to be a pacman flaw.
Yeah it would be nice if the warnings and notes could be included in the pacman sync database somehow. Tying those messages directly to the packages makes a lot of sense to me. As far as I know, this isn't currently possible though.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:28:04AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the CUPS update. :)
OK, pacman -Sf cups and then re-trying the update did the trick. Will have to check my printer tomorrow... Many thanks, but I 'rest my case': messages such as 'blabla exists in file system' are not very informative. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:56:29 +0200 Fons Adriaensen <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:28:04AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the CUPS update. :)
OK, pacman -Sf cups and then re-trying the update did the trick. Will have to check my printer tomorrow...
Many thanks, but I 'rest my case':
messages such as 'blabla exists in file system' are not very informative.
Ciao,
These 2 stickied threads (and a couple of others) are more or less a "must read" for every arch users: PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57205 pacman error: FILENAME exists in filesystem http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373
participants (6)
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Evangelos Foutras
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Fons Adriaensen
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Frank Thieme
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Loui Chang
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Matěj Týč
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Øyvind Heggstad