[arch-general] Howto - tell pacman -S (-U) to overwrite existing file in filesystem?

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:49:06AM +0100, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> [2011-02-20 17:28:17 -0600] David C. Rankin:
> >   From your answers, I don't think you read my question before giving the the
> > RTFM dismissal.
> 
> I read (and answered) the question that is the subject of this thread.
> 
> The lengthy details of how you got to ask yourself this question don't
> interest me much, so I admit I just skimmed through your message. That
> is also why I replied off-list: to avoid polluting the list; replying to
> my reply on the list defeats the purpose.
> 
> > The question is "Can I do something in the PKGBUILD to tell pacman
> > - if the file is already there -> overwrite it?"
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no way of doing that, except of
> course overwriting the file via the install script.

I'm just curious, which part of the install script is run *before*
pacman checks for conflicting files?

/M

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