Re: [pacman-dev] Conflict when replacing a folder with subfolders by a file in a package update

On 06/08/13 00:33, Timothée Ravier wrote:

Hi,

Pacman exits with a conflict error if the package updated is replacing a folder with subfolders inside by a single file with the same name.

This may be a bug as I don't know any cases where this cloud make sense. But I may be wrong of course. I'll let you decide.

Testing was done on fully updated Arch Linux system with the following repositories enabled: kf5, kde-unstable, testing, core, extra, community-testing, community, multilib-testing, multilib.

Example PKGBUILDs to reproduce the issue:

<snip> Confirmed using pacman-git. We need a bug report and a pactest for this (and even a fix!) Any volunteers? Allan