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

[David C. Rankin]

On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:55:24 pm Thomas Bächler wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

	For the license package, I just uninstalled it, and it reinstalled without issue. For all the pear packages, pacman said nobody owned them and that pear wasn't installed. I just created a temporary directory and moved all the conflicting pear packages to the temp directory (with their original directory structure in place in case I needed to restore them) and then did the system update again and it worked fine.




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