[arch-general] System a bit broken pacman -Syu exists in filesystem

[Leonid Isaev]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:23:35 +0100
Lars Madson <rwx700 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My system has two hard drive, one SSD with / and /home/user on two
> partitions and a HDD mounted on /opt and /var.
> 
> The HDD failed, and the system works with only the SSD as it was installed
> like this and then extended to the HDD.
> 
> Only 3 or 4 weeks of update make a difference between the content of /var
> and /opt on the SSD and the HDD.
> 
> Now I'm performing an upgrade of the whole system to get back to normal but
> all files in /usr are making conflict as the /opt and /var are older and
> trying to install files that are already there.
> 
> So I could - but it seems really painful - rename all the conflicting files
> (they are a lot), if anyone as an idea how to automatize this. Or maybe I
> would love some kind of option in pacman that would overwrite or ignore
> those conflicts, I know that's against how pacman is build so I'm asking
> here.
> 
> Hope I make sens.
> 
> thx
> Laurent

You could use the -f option but I wonder if this is more troublesome and
time-consuming than a simple reinstall.

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