[arch-general] New Conflict on System Upgrade - license? pear? vi?

[Thomas Bächler]

David C. Rankin schrieb:
> Listmates,
> 
> 	Here are some strange conflicts found during an attempted system update. 
> Thankfully they are limited to the license package, pear and vi:
> 
> (269/269) checking for file conflicts               
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> 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                                              

This is a pacman bug where it finds false conflicts when there is a 
symlink to a directory in the old package and a directory in the new one 
(or the other way around, I don't remember).
I thought the package was supposed to be fixed, but apparently it 
wasn't. -Sf licenses.

> php: /usr/share/pear/.registry/xml_util.reg exists in filesystem                                            
[...]

No idea about php.

> vi: /usr/bin/view exists in filesystem                                                                      

I had this more than once, no idea what causes it, but you can simply rm 
/usr/bin/view and then update.

> 	I guess these are left overs from the earlier forced kde-unstable install. 

I don't think that is the case.

> I'll try an uninstall of the packages and then a reinstall and see how it 
> goes...

That should work, too.

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