[arch-general] Error when upgrading "reflector"

anti anti at lavabit.com
Tue Jul 3 09:54:50 EDT 2012



On 03/07/12 15:28, Benjamin Boudreau wrote:
> Just got when doing a pacman -Syu:
> 
> reflector-2012.7.1-1-any      10.8 KiB   672K/s 00:00
> [#############################] 1
> ...
> (14/14) checking for file conflicts
> [#############################] 100%
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> reflector:
> /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/__pycache__/Reflector.cpython-32.pyc
> exists in filesystem
> 
> Should I force the update?
> 
> --Benjamin Boudreau
> 

The recommended way is to get the conflicting file out of the way (eg
move it to a backup) and do a normal update, *without* --force. It's
somewhere in the wiki...



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