Interesting debug output while testing largefile support in pacman (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7578): [14:55:58] debug: config: finished parsing /usr/local/etc/pacman.conf [14:55:58] debug: registering database 'local' [14:55:58] debug: opening database 'local' [14:55:58] debug: opening database from path '/usr/local/var/lib/pacman/local/' loading package data... [14:55:58] debug: loading target 'largepackage-1-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz' [14:55:58] debug: reading 'largepackage' metadata done. checking dependencies... [14:56:58] debug: looking for unsatisfied dependencies [14:56:58] debug: loading package cache for repository 'local' [14:56:58] debug: cannot find package installed 'largepackage' [14:56:58] debug: looking for conflicts [14:56:58] debug: checkconflicts: db vs target 'largepackage' [14:56:59] debug: sorting by dependencies [14:56:59] debug: started sorting dependencies [14:56:59] debug: sorting dependencies finished done. checking for file conflicts... [14:56:59] debug: looking for file conflicts [14:56:59] debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: largepackage [14:56:59] debug: /opt/ is a directory, not a conflict [14:56:59] debug: /opt/largefile is a directory, not a conflict done. installing largepackage... [14:56:59] debug: adding package largepackage-1-3 [14:56:59] debug: extracting files [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972) [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972) [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972) [14:56:59] debug: extracting /opt/ [14:56:59] debug: warning extracting opt/ (Already exists: File exists) [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972) [14:56:59] debug: extracting /opt/largefile [14:59:25] debug: updating database [14:59:25] debug: adding database entry 'largepackage' [14:59:25] debug: writing largepackage-1-3 DESC information back to db [14:59:25] debug: writing largepackage-1-3 FILES information back to db [14:59:25] debug: writing largepackage-1-3 DEPENDS information back to db [14:59:25] debug: adding entry 'largepackage' in 'local' cache [14:59:25] debug: package has no dependencies, no other packages to update done. [14:59:25] debug: running "ldconfig -r /" Here is the package filelist: opt/ (directory) opt/largefile (a 2GB sized normal file) Notice what the above output says- that /opt/largefile is a directory, not a conflict. Clearly a problem here. This is pacman built off my working branch, so not including any recent patches from Andrew or Chantry with regards to the overwrite stuff. -Dan