[arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?

[Øyvind Heggstad]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:56:29 +0200
Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:28:04AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> 
> > Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the
> > CUPS update. :)
> 
> OK, pacman -Sf cups and then re-trying the update
> did the trick. Will have to check my printer 
> tomorrow...
> 
> Many thanks, but I 'rest my case':
> 
>  messages such as 'blabla exists in file system'
>  are not very informative.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
These 2 stickied threads (and a couple of others) are more or less a
"must read" for every arch users:

PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57205

pacman error: FILENAME exists in filesystem
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373