On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:28 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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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 Wed 21 Apr 2010 23:49 +0200, Matěj Týč wrote:

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:28 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

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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 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:56:29 +0200 Fons Adriaensen wrote:

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:28:04AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

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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