[arch-general] xorg upgrade - error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

   Updating xorg resulted in pacman finding the following conflicts:

(87/87) checking for file conflicts 
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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
xorg-bdftopcf: /usr/bin/bdftopcf exists in filesystem
xorg-bdftopcf: /usr/share/man/man1/bdftopcf.1.gz exists in filesystem
xorg-mkfontscale: /usr/bin/mkfontscale exists in filesystem
xorg-mkfontscale: /usr/share/man/man1/mkfontscale.1.gz exists in filesystem
xorg-mkfontdir: /usr/bin/mkfontdir exists in filesystem
xorg-mkfontdir: /usr/share/man/man1/mkfontdir.1.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.


--force works fine.  Just thought I'd let the list know in case the packages 
need tweaking.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.