[arch-general] Manpage(s) exist in filesystem

[Eric Belanger]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Attila wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since some days during a "pacman -Su" i get the message that some man pages
> exist in the filesystem and the upgrade stops. The crazy thing was that it
> was even a manpage from the package which gets upgraded. Because it was even
> only one or two files i delete them and run the upgrade again.
>
> But today with tcl there was too much files to ignore it.-) So i want to ask
> here if anyone has had the same problem or do i miss something what i have to
> configure?
>
> It is not realy a problem for mine because now i will do a de- and a reinstall
> (i like this more than forcing it with "-f") of this packages but perhaps
> there is a better solution.
>
> See you, Attila
>

Just a guess but have you replaced one of the /usr/man or /usr/share/man 
directories with a symlink? That might be confusing pacman as the new tcl 
installs man pages in /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man.

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