[arch-general] File conflicts upgrading licenses

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Zé Ninguém<meugninez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
> I am having some file conflicts when upgrading the licenses package, and I
> don't understand why?
> Here is the error:
>
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for inter-conflicts...
>
> Targets (1): licenses-2.5-1
>
> Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
> Total Installed Size:   0.46 MB
>
> Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
> checking package integrity...
> (1/1) checking for file conflicts
> [####################################################################################################]
> 100%
> error: could not prepare transaction
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/FDL exists in filesystem
> licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL exists in filesystem
> licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt exists in filesystem
> licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/LGPL exists in filesystem
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>
> But the files it is complaining about belong to "licenses" already.
>
> /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt is owned by licenses 2.4-1
>
> So my question is, why are this errors hapening?

I need to rebuild the package to make pacman happy- it can't be
completely sure about the symlink structure unfortunately, so I'm
going to organize it like it was before.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14921

-Dan